INN FAQ syslog message: ME cant dbminit /usr/local/news/history

INN FAQ Part 3

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Subject: (3.13) syslog message: ME cant dbminit /usr/local/news/history
That means that some of the history files are missing -- See INN FAQ #3.2 There is also a message: cant dbminit ME (Math) argument out of domain of func This means that your history.dir file is not formatted correctly. It should look something like this: (from James Brister) dbz 3 2579 9 C 128 127 24 4 3 2 1 0 4677 1706 1706 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (i.e. two lines of ascii, most of it being numbers). In the latter case you can do: cd /where/the/history/is rm history.dir rm history.pag makehistory -r -f history ------------------------------ [Source: INN FAQ Part 3 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part3] [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/11/03 18:15:12 $ $Revision: 2.18 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]

Subject: (3.13) syslog message: ME cant dbminit /usr/local/news/history

That means that some of the history files are missing -- See INN FAQ #3.2

There is also a message: cant dbminit ME (Math) argument out of domain of func
This means that your history.dir file is not formatted correctly. It should
look something like this: (from James Brister)

dbz 3 2579 9 C 128 127 24 4 3 2 1 0
4677 1706 1706 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

(i.e. two lines of ascii, most of it being numbers).

In the latter case you can do:

cd /where/the/history/is
rm history.dir
rm history.pag
makehistory -r -f history

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[Source: INN FAQ Part 3 Archive-name: usenet/software/inn-faq/part3]
[Last Changed: $Date: 1997/11/03 18:15:12 $ $Revision: 2.18 $]
[Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.]