Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!cica!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!paul From: paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: trn mthreads not expiring...?? Message-ID: <1990Nov30.084418.19632@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 30 Nov 90 08:44:18 GMT References: <4_377B@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca> Organization: Actrix Information Exchange Lines: 31 I have a strange problem.... I think it may be in my C news active file. The symptom is that my trn mthreads program always lists 0 articles as being marked expired from its database -- they just keep growing. A related problem with rn is that it always thinks that there are articles going back to #1. Checking out my active file, I can see that the third field is almost always 0 or 1 -- e.g. actrix 0000000369 0000000000 y fido.askthedr 0000000005 0000000001 y fido.aus_genealogy 0000000029 0000000001 y nz.comp 0000000109 0000000000 y nz.general 0000000839 0000000000 y alt.artcom 0000000116 0000000001 y alt.atheism 0000001491 0000000001 y ... I suspect (but don't know) that the third field is used to keep track of the oldest message -- and guess that this should be updated by the expire program (doexpire). Unfortunately, even though we've been running C news for over a year, they haven't changed! I guess it's time to fix it. Any suggestions? echo "thanks" >/dev/future -- Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.gen.nz