Format error in expire.ctl

Mikael Olofsson Mikael.Olofsson at es.sigma.se
Mon Mar 13 12:02:02 UTC 2000


Hi

I have the same problem and I get the error when expireover is run and the
output is from storage/ov.c line 719.

/Mikael

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Martin [SMTP:c.martin at sheffield.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Monday, March 13, 2000 12:47 PM
> To:	inn-workers at isc.org
> Subject:	Format error in expire.ctl
> 
> I have now discovered why overview is increasing without limit until
> it fills the buffer -- the above message.
> 
> I didn't realize that everything stopped dead at this point, I took it
> to be merely advisory.
> 
> There are two linked messages, the first is "Line 23 bad format".
> 
> The line in expire.ctl it appears to be pointing to is
> 
> 1:1:30:60
> 
> There are two places in EXPreadfile in expire.c where this message
> appears, one connected with the "/remember/" line and one connected
> with "Regular expiration line -- right number of fields?".
> 
> I've stared at this line, I've od'd it, and, when I step through
> expire with a debugger, it doesn't trigger an error.
> 
> What's a mother to do?
> 



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