Validate history file contents.

[Christiaan den Besten]

Hi !

> Indeed. What's your storage method? Your "groupbaseexpiry" setting in
> inn.conf and your expire.ctl?

---
grep "groupba" inn.conf
groupbaseexpiry:        true
---
grep -vE "^#|^$" expire.ctl
/remember/:1
*:A:90:90:90
 
>> Is there any way to 'validate' the contents of the history file ...
>> too see if it doesn't contain entries of articles that are no longer
>> on the spool
> 
> You can extract the token from the history file and ask sm whether the
> article is really still present.

How do I do that?
 
> Another explanation: Your history file is damaged and therefore not
> re-written by expire. You should see error message about that though.

I checked the news.err file .. no errors ... 

bye,
Chris