Kenneth Whittaker penned:
Usenet admins.... Just curious folks. How big are the history files out there? The history.pag?
# ls -l history* -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 275980551 Jun 20 09:10 history -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 123 Jun 20 09:10 history.dir -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 36733840 Jun 20 09:10 history.pag
# wc -l active 8947 active
# egrep -v '^#|^$' expire.ctl /remember/:14 *:A:4:10:never *.test:A:1:1:1 comp.*:A:4:14:16 news.*:A:4:14:never news.software.nntp:A:4:90:never news.announce.newgroups:A:4:75:never info.*:A:4:45:never gnu.*:A:4:30:never bit.*:A:4:18:18 sci.*:A:4:14:never ieee.*:A:4:30:never alt.*:A:7:7:7 alt.binaries*:A:1:1:1 alt.sex*:A:1:1:1 coin*:A:7:14:15 orion*:A:7:14:15 win*:A:7:14:15 control:U:1:1:1 junk:U:1:1:1
Regards,
David K. Drum david@more.net