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From: mike@pensoft.uucp (Mike Heath)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problem with c-news expire
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.165148.58@pensoft.uucp>
Date: 16 Apr 91 16:51:48 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.173801.17063@demott.com> <1991Apr12.204143.21508@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Pencom Software, Austin, TX
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In article <1991Apr12.204143.21508@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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...

I installed C-news just in the last month and I had the same problem.
Here is the message I received:

From LOGIN  Sun Apr  7 21:00:03 1991
Received: by pensoft.UUCP (5.61/smail2.5/09-07-90)
	id AA03621; Sun, 7 Apr 91 21:00:03 -0500
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 91 21:00:03 -0500
From: LOGIN
Message-Id: <9104080200.AA03621@pensoft.UUCP>
/Usr/Lib/Newsbin/Expire/Expire: group `alt.activism' (unmoderated) not covered b
y control file (no details given)
Apparently-To: root
Status: RO


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Cron: The previous message is the standard output
      and standard error of one of your cron commands.

>
>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.

The last line of my control file is `all x 10 -'.  I fixed the problem
by adding alt.activism into the control file. I haven't gotten the
message since, though I still don't understand why I got it in the first
place.  I do have a control line for alt.  The version of C-news I'm running
is at patchlevel 15-Dec-1990 and I'm running it on a 386 with
System V/386 Release 3.2 (ISC 2.0.2).

-- 
	Mike Heath
	Pencom Software
	pensoft!mike@cs.utexas.edu