Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Odd expire output
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.022506.23924@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul9.183558.287@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 02:25:06 GMT

In article <1990Jul9.183558.287@caen.engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes:
>> expire: wrong number of fields in `...'
>> expire: bad return from doline(): `'
>
>Currently I'm stumped as to where the source of this problem is...

You've got a blank line in your history file.  The problem is being
compounded slightly by a bug in expire's error handling.

The fix is to go find the messed-up line(s) in your history file,
and either tidy them up or get rid of them.
-- 
NFS is a wonderful advance:  a Unix    | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
filesystem with MSDOS semantics. :-(   |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
