inn 2.3, news.daily wont rebuild history files

[unilerik at green.rnd.uni-c.dk]

hi,

I'm running INN 2.3 - cnfs/tradindexed on ibm/aix 4.3.3.
My problem is that news.daily wont rebuild history files anymore
-the problem started few days ago.

It just leaves them:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
      0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news          0 Nov 11 00:02 history.n.index
      0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news          0 Nov 11 00:02 history.n.hash
      4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news        113 Nov 11 00:02 history.n.dir
      0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news          0 Nov 11 00:02 history.n
      4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news        120 Nov 11 11:25 history.dir
 289280 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news  296187504 Nov 11 11:25 history.index
 216960 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news  222140628 Nov 11 11:25 history.hash
1271936 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 1302457450 Nov 11 11:25 history
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Output from 'expire.log' :

expire begin Sat Nov 11 00:02:51 MET 2000: (-v1 -z/news_spool/log/expire.rm)
expire end Sat Nov 11 00:02:54 MET 2000
        all done Sat Nov 11 00:02:54 MET 2000
        expireover start Sat Nov 11 00:02:54 MET 2000
        expireover end Sat Nov 11 01:31:47 MET 2000
lowmarkrenumber begin Sat Nov 11 01:31:47 MET 2000: (/news_spool/log/expire.lowmark)
lowmarkrenumber end Sat Nov 11 01:31:47 MET 2000 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Output from 'ctlinnd mode':

Server running
Allowing remote connections
Parameters c 7 i 100 (5) l 1000000 o 2987 t 300 H 2 T 60 X 0 normal specified
Reserved Expiring process 13870
Readers follow enabled
Perl filtering enabled
$                        
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Every morning I "cleanup" by removing history.n.* files and putting the
server in "Not reserved" state.
But have do I solve the problem?
My history file (this morning 1.3 Gb) gets bigger and bigger.

Today I install latest "INN 2.3.1 (20001110 prerelease)" - and did a:
/home/news/inn/bin/news.daily expireover lowmark 

-but still having the same problem.

Is my history-files corrupted ? 
And how to rebuild them?
Is it possible to do that with readers on?

Here's output from history.dir and history.n.dir:

$ cat history.dir
dbz 6 18511747 14 66
16040214 12341165 12158535 12079313 11995114 11872247 11411249 11092338 11009452 11107629 10897073
 
$ cat history.n.dir
dbz 6 23479948 14 66
0 15653299 12341165 12158535 12079313 11995114 11872247 11411249 11092338 11009452 11107629


Here's output from last time 'news.daily' (4 days ago) created history files:
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Expire messages:
expire begin Tue Nov  7 00:10:11 MET 2000: (-v1 -z/news_spool/log/expire.rm)
    Article lines processed  8051940
    Articles retained        7361504
    Entries expired           690436
    Articles dropped               0
    Old entries dropped       707715
    Old entries retained     3591132
expire end Tue Nov  7 00:22:47 MET 2000
        all done Tue Nov  7 00:22:47 MET 2000
        expireover start Tue Nov  7 00:22:48 MET 2000
        expireover end Tue Nov  7 01:54:55 MET 2000
lowmarkrenumber begin Tue Nov  7 01:54:55 MET 2000: (/news_spool/log/expire.lowmark)
lowmarkrenumber end Tue Nov  7 01:54:55 MET 2000
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/Erik
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