Expire errors: history files not updated

[Alex Kiernan]

Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> Konstantin Sorokin <kvs at freedom.nmd.msu.ru> writes:
> 
> > In the expire.log i see messages like this:
> 
> > can't read line /raid/news1/history/historySuccess
> > Expire errors: history files not updated.
> 
> > ...and history file grow bigger and bigger.
> 
> You have a corrupted line in your history file, probably a line that's too
> long.

A too long line should give "line too long ", but doesn't because the
tests are in the wrong order - I'll fix that. I'll also add in code to
report the line number it last saw when it drops out of the expire
loop.

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, Thus PLC