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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!hookup!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!usenet From: tbaca@wsmr-helstf1.army.mil (Thomas L. Baca) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: INN: makehistory fails... Date: 29 Aug 1995 15:48:42 GMT Organization: High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility Lines: 44 Distribution: world Message-ID: <TBACA.95Aug29094842@wsmr-helstf1.army.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: wsmr-helstf1.army.mil Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nntp:15445 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:762 We are running INN as shipped w/ BSD/OS 2.0. We have the spool split over multiple partitions, but I've followed all of the applicable hints in the INN FAQ to allow this. I've also been through the FAQ and the man pages, but can find no solution to my problem. We recently lost the history and dbz files due to a disk problem. When I run makehistory, it builds up a temp file (e.g. hist000223) and then runs it through sort. This creates a new temp file (e.g. hista00223) and deletes the first one. Then, when it's about to create the real history text file, it exits with: warning: last character not record delimiter Work file line 1 had bad format This leaves the second temp file: -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 102130153 Aug 29 01:30 hista00223 and a zero length history file: -rw-rw-r-- 1 root news 0 Aug 29 01:30 /var/news/etc/history The first lines of the temp file (hista00223) are: ////+Lws9Ye/+Lws9Ye/+oMw0zpk/+oMw0zpk/+oMw0zpk/+oMw0zpk/+oMw0zpk/+oMw0zpk/0/03/08/1 <199508231106.GAA01791@Walden.MO.NET> 809228925~-~809176183 comp.os.ms-windows.pre-release/1 . . . I can see that the first line doesn't fit the history(5) format, but I can't figure out how to fix this. I have installed the patched 'sort' for BSD/OS. I have also removed all symlinks in the spool partitions as suggested by the makehistory man page. I really don't want to have to chuck out my entire spool and start over, but I'm quickly running out of alternatives. Thanks in advance. Tom Baca