Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews expire problem... need help
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.211342.8589@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec7.130639.15803@bnr.ca> <660596702.10086@mindcraft.com> <1990Dec8.190114.15171@sceard.Sceard.COM> <660770337.20986@mindcraft.com> <1990Dec10.015743.28094@sceard.Sceard.COM> <660852555.23022@mindcraft.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 21:13:42 GMT

In article <660852555.23022@mindcraft.com> karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
>I submit that it's wise to use this mechanism when hacking on the
>history file by hand.  It's easier than changing the cron entry for
>expire, as Henry suggested, and it locks relaynews, too.

That's why I suggested using locknews, which does this.  (Note, locknews !=
newslock.)  You'd really kind of like to lock out expire too, though, hence
the suggestion about the cron entry.
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