Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews expire
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.061224.2989@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul01.153715.6850@nstar.uucp>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 90 06:12:24 GMT

In article <1990Jul01.153715.6850@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>...expire is not killing articles that have an "Expires in"
>line in them unless expire is ran after the date in the
>"Expires in" field - is there an option to expire everything
>regardless of the contents?

See the expire(8) manual page for details on how to set bounds
on expire's acceptance of explicit expiry dates.  The out-of-the-box
default is a 90-day limit on everything, but it's possible to be
more restrictive on a group-by-group basis.

There is *sometimes* a real reason to postpone expiry of an
article; you probably do not want to just suppress all explicit
expiry dates without thinking about it.
-- 
"Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS    | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
must be changed."  -John K. Ousterhout |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry