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From: ehrlich@psuvax1.UUCP (Dan Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Error messages emitted by expire
Message-ID: <2627@psuvax1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 09:17:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: psuvax1.2627
Posted: Mon Jul 27 09:17:52 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 05:09:33 EDT
Reply-To: ehrlich@psuvax1.UUCP (Dan Ehrlich)
Distribution: world
Organization: Penn State University, University Park, PA
Lines: 26
Keywords: {active,history} file maintenance.

>Return-Path: netnews
>From: netnews (netnews login)
>To: usenet
>Subject: Missing files!
>Responding-System: psuvax1.UUCP
>
>System: psuvax1
>
>There was a problem with /usr/new/lib/news/history!!
>The problem has been taken care of.

This is in the "It sure would be nice if..." category.  Has anyone
thought about making expire emit more informative messages concerning
what it has done to repair inconsistencies found in the active ot
history files?  It is nice to know that expire has fixed a problem, but
it would also be nice to know what the problem was in the first place.

If time permits and it does not seem to difficult, I will post anything
that get done to provide this to the net.


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--Dan Ehrlich 
The Pennsylvania State University, Computer Science Department
333 Whitmore Laboratory, University Park, PA   16802
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