Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!sharkey!cfctech!rphroy!pte!kiy
From: kiy@pte.UUCP (Kevin Young)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Expire not expiring news?
Summary: run -p option once in a while
Keywords: expire -p
Message-ID: <2483@pte.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 17:28:05 GMT
References: <888@dtscp1.UUCP> <9573@cadnetix.COM>
Reply-To: kiy@pte.UUCP (Kevin Young)
Organization: Precise Technology & Electronics, Warren, MI
Lines: 20

In article <9573@cadnetix.COM> rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty Carruth) writes:
>In article <888@dtscp1.UUCP> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes:
>>... I noticed articles that have been here since as far back as May?!  
>We have discovered the same problem here...

Well I'm somewhat of a beginner at newsadmin but when I have that
problem I manually run the line:

	expire -p -e30 -E30

This has the effect of expiring articles which were *posted* more than
30 days in the past.  This could be put into the cron file but I just
haven't gotten to it.  I think 30 days is plenty of time to allow an
an article to get to me from anywhere.  BTW, we run SYSV r2.2.
Kevin
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>|< Kevin I Young					uunet!edsews!pte!kiy
    Precise Technology & Electronics, Inc.
    Custom Automated Test and Measurement Equipment for Industry
    Old Saying: "If you can't do it in real time, then don't do it at all" - me