Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problem with c-news expire
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.204143.21508@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 20:41:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.173801.17063@demott.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr12.173801.17063@demott.com> kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>
>    Every time expire runs, I get the following mail:
>
>expire problems:
>expire: alt.aquaria' (unmoderated) not covered by control filegroup `

Is this the exact form of the message?  It shouldn't be mangled like that...

As for the cause, please RTFM (in this case, expire(8)):

    The first line of the control file which applies to a given article is
    used to control its expiry.
    It is an error for no line to apply;
    the last line should be something like `all x 7 -'
    to ensure that at least one line is always applicable.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry