| Subject: (7.32) Help, my history file is getting real big! |
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It's supposed to be big. You want it to be big. Don't ever run makehistory to build a new database! It will take hours or days to run. The resulting database will be smaller, but that's because you have removed entries for expired articles, leaving yourself vulnerable to duplicates. It's hard to estimate exactly how much you'll need, since it depends a lot on how much news you carry as well as for how long. The partition which holds your history datebase must have at least enough room for two copies of the database, since expire(8) needs to build a new one while the old one is still in use. If you can't afford free space on this partition for two copies, but have plenty of space elsewhere, then you might use the "-d" flag to expire. ------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/09/16 01:25:57 $ $Revision: 2.25 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |