INN FAQ What do these history.n.* files do?

INN FAQ Part 7

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Subject: (7.23) What do these history.n.* files do?
Q: There are history.n, history.n.dir and history.n.pag lying around - what are they good for? These files come from expire and are the new history. Without errors these files should disappear after expire is done. If they stay after expire is finished, you most certainly have a problem with disk space on the disk where history.* is or if not a broken line in history, which caused expire to bail out. ------------------------------ [Source: INN FAQ Part 7 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part7] [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/09/16 01:25:57 $ $Revision: 2.25 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]

Subject: (7.23) What do these history.n.* files do?

Q: There are history.n, history.n.dir and history.n.pag lying around -
what are they good for?

These files come from expire and are the new history. Without errors
these files should disappear after expire is done. If they stay after
expire is finished, you most certainly have a problem with disk space
on the disk where history.* is or if not a broken line in history, which
caused expire to bail out.

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[Source: INN FAQ Part 7 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part7]
[Last Changed: $Date: 1997/09/16 01:25:57 $ $Revision: 2.25 $]
[Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]