mkhistory8cn

Usage

Overview

Mkhistory rebuilds the history file and its auxiliaries to match the articles in /var/spool/news. Normally mkhistory uses a reasonable default size for the dbz(3Z) index database; if the -s option is given, the expected number of entries in the history database is taken to be the number of articles found in /var/spool/news times sizemultiplier.

Mkhistory is fairly slow and locks the whole news system for the duration of the run, so it should not be run casually.

Files

/var/lib/news/history	history file
/var/lib/news/history.pag	dbm database for history file
/var/lib/news/history.dir	dbm database for history file
/var/lib/news/history.n*	new history file and dbm files abuilding
/usr/lib/news/maint/*	various auxiliaries