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From: asklingl@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Andreas Klingler)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Need help with CNews expire (Urgent!)
Summary: Expire doesn't work correctly for me
Message-ID: <3087@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 31 Aug 90 10:07:34 GMT
Distribution: news
Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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I just switched from Bnews to CNews on this system (a Sequent running
DYNIX) and I am having severe trubble with expire:

If cron starts Doexpire I get a mail with hundreds of lines like this:

expire: can't archive `comp/os/os9/985' (No such file or directory)

The thing is this article _does_ exist. Even worse, if I start
Doexpire manually with exactly the same environment as cron does
all goes fine. 
Well allmost all. Expire expires only some articles for which it is
now time to go away but leaves the ones mentioned in the mail
(and all older ones) alone. So my news-partition if filling up with
old articles. -> HELP!!!

I am running CNews with the patch of 25 May 1990.

All help appreciated (Please send E-Mail).

	Andy