Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!umich!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!massey.ac.nz!cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!K.Spagnolo From: K.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Ken Spagnolo) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: c-news expire problem and questions Message-ID: <1990Oct29.045714.8306@massey.ac.nz> Date: 29 Oct 90 04:57:14 GMT References: <1104@massey.ac.nz> <1990Oct26.173652.805@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: K.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Ken Spagnolo) Organization: Massey University Computer Centre Lines: 31 (If anyone saw my previous response before I cancelled it, please ignore. It was bogus. I shouldn't rely on my memory so much :-) In article <1990Oct26.173652.805@zoo.toronto.edu> you write: >I think you need to take a good hard look at those local changes to >spacefor; sounds like they are not doing what you think they are. Thanx for your response. I did just that and came out with a bit of egg on my face. I neglected to change the partition spacefor df's for archive from $NEWSARTS, which certainly wouldn't have enough space on it to archive if it was filled up to start with. I archive to a different partition. There is a problem, though, with doexpire. Really, its a problem with sh. The reason I didn't realize early on that I'd goofed, was because the mail I got informing me the -h option was being used on expire was empty. This could be due to a bug I've heard about in some Bourne shells that won't let you pipe the result of ( ... ) anywhere. I changed doexpire to mail $NEWSMASTER <