Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: *SERIOUS* expire problem...
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.172931.13032@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1991 17:29:31 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.015811.243@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar8.015811.243@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> george@taca.ece.cmu.edu (George Cebulka) writes:
>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.

It sounds like something is badly wrong with your news system, and the
history file lacks entries for those articles.  That is *not* a normal
situation; you should investigate at once.  Are current articles getting
history entries properly?  If not, that's the problem.  (In particular,
if you are running System V by any chance, check to see if your history
has hit the default ulimit.)

Running addmissing is the preferred solution.  Rebuilding your history
file is more drastic but would have the same effect in this situation.
However, you really need to understand the problem first, or there is
a good chance it will recur.
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