expire: line too long

[Alexander Bartolich]

Julien ÉLIE schrieb:
> [...]
> But what is the 586th line?

I see nothing special there.

# sed -ne '585,$p' -e 587q /var/lib/news/history
[3BCD643CDD0E879BB0D4DD79EC044B42]      1211155197~-~1211155190 @0302414C54310000000000001D8600000001@
[9D335EB15AD96247F85536FBA08DD3BB]      1218726028~-~1218724739 @030445553100000000000013A61400000002@
[F6EDF0DE693FBA6328870010040C0CE9]      1218726028~-~1218724589 @030445553100000000000013A61700000002@

And no hidden space.

# sed -ne '586,$p' -e 586q /var/lib/news/history | wc
       1       3      98

I guess that line numbers in expire.log are from the old history.

 > [...]
> This line looks OK.
> 
> man history

Oh, I see.

Ciao

     Alexander.