Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!taca.ece.cmu.edu!george From: george@taca.ece.cmu.edu (George Cebulka) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: *SERIOUS* expire problem... Keywords: help! Message-ID: <1991Mar8.015811.243@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> Date: 8 Mar 91 01:58:11 GMT Sender: news@fs7.ece.cmu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 133 Originator: george@taca.ece.cmu.edu I'm having a problem with articles not getting expired. I have many articles hanging around *way* past their expire times. This is causing my spool partition to fill up (I'm at 96% now). When I run "newsfrom 02/24/91 02/28/91" it returns exactly one article. However, when I cd into a spool directroy for a newsgroup there are many the creation dates show many files which fit into this time frame. Most of them seem to be from around the Feb/24-Feb/28 time frame. It would almost seem that few, if any, articles are getting deleted since that Feb 26. Thank you George Cebulka, ECE Facilities Here is a copy of my explist file. # modified version, no archiving # # hold onto history lines 14 days, nobody gets >365 days /expired/ x 30 - #/bounds/ x 0-1-120 - # default: 7 days and ditch'em cmu.ece.general x 0-45-46 - cmu.ece.class x 0-120-121 - ece x 0-120-121 - cmu x 0-21-22 - # Some of the stuff in news.announce is important. Let it hang around for a while. news.software.nntp x 0-35-36 - news.software.b x 0-35-36 - news.announce.conferences x 0-30-31 - news.announce.important x 0-120-121 - news.announce.newusers x 0-120-121 - news.announce.newgroups x 0-15-16 - # Newsgroups we don't want to keep for more than a week. # # Newgroups that we don't want or need to keep more than 3 days control x 0-2-2 - # This is the default. Keep stuff for a week, then get rid of it bionet x 0-7-7 - talk x 0-7-7 - # Stuff to get rid of early. This is an emergency measure. comp x 0-6-6 - comp.binaries x 0-3-4 - comp.dcom x 0-3-4 - comp.lang x 0-3-4 - comp.amiga x 0-2-3 - comp.sys x 0-3-4 - comp.sources x 0-4-5 - comp.unix x 0-4-5 - comp.windows x 0-4-5 - comp.mail x 0-3-4 - alt x 0-6-6 - alt.activism x 0-3-4 - alt.flame x 0-3-4 - alt.folklore x 0-3-4 - alt.sex x 0-3-4 - alt.sources x 0-3-4 - alt.tv x 0-3-4 - soc x 0-3-4 - # all x 0-7-7 - Here is a partial listing of two of my directories. /nnspool/comp/binaries/ibm/pc total 2779 drwxrwxr-x 3 news 1536 Mar 6 19:40 . drwxrwxr-x 3 news 512 Nov 26 11:53 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 25014 Feb 26 03:44 3752 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 20978 Feb 26 03:44 3753 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 44563 Feb 26 03:52 3754 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 45034 Feb 26 03:52 3755 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 5662 Feb 26 03:52 3756 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 21029 Feb 26 03:52 3757 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 7251 Feb 26 03:52 3758 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 42878 Feb 26 16:33 3759 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 40865 Feb 26 16:41 3760 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 40890 Feb 26 17:34 3761 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 40896 Feb 26 17:34 3762 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 40103 Feb 26 17:34 3763 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 22032 Feb 26 17:51 3764 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 15755 Feb 26 17:51 3765 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 46780 Mar 1 11:52 3766 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 46457 Mar 1 12:03 3767 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 45993 Mar 1 12:31 3768 total 241 /nnspool/soc/culture/japan drwxrwxr-x 2 news 1536 Mar 7 19:36 . drwxrwxr-x 34 news 1024 Feb 18 02:16 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 6362 Dec 18 09:04 6553 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 2085 Dec 18 09:32 6554 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 2706 Dec 18 10:03 6555 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 959 Jan 14 16:40 6728 -rw-rw-r-- 8 news 3237 Feb 24 01:46 6995 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1967 Feb 24 03:30 6996 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1647 Feb 24 05:21 6997 -rw-rw-r-- 8 news 2308 Feb 24 18:02 6998 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1935 Feb 24 20:03 6999 -rw-rw-r-- 3 news 1503 Feb 25 11:01 7000 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1429 Feb 25 12:17 7001 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1144 Feb 25 19:48 7002 -rw-rw-r-- 8 news 2082 Feb 26 00:39 7003 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1067 Feb 26 00:50 7004 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 2731 Feb 26 00:54 7005 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1331 Feb 26 01:36 7006 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 757 Feb 26 02:04 7007 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 683 Feb 26 02:19 7008 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 816 Feb 26 10:17 7009 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1592 Feb 26 11:50 7010 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 3342 Feb 26 14:16 7011 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1031 Feb 26 17:46 7012 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 2935 Feb 26 19:33 7013 -rw-rw-r-- 6 news 2609 Feb 26 19:44 7014 -rw-rw-r-- 7 news 1918 Feb 26 19:44 7015 -rw-rw-r-- 8 news 7830 Feb 26 19:44 7016 -rw-rw-r-- 8 news 2270 Feb 26 19:44 7017 -rw-rw-r-- 8 news 4068 Feb 26 19:44 7018 -rw-rw-r-- 9 news 5286 Feb 26 21:32 7019 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1944 Feb 28 17:03 7033 . . . -rw-rw-r-- 1 news 1059 Mar 1 00:46 7034 -- George Cebulka, ECE Facilities