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From: mike@pensoft.uucp (Mike Heath)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problem with c-news expire
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.171052.6928@pensoft.uucp>
Date: 17 Apr 91 17:10:52 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.204143.21508@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr16.165148.58@pensoft.uucp> <1991Apr16.194717.8358@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991Apr16.194717.8358@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.165148.58@pensoft.uucp> mike@pensoft.uucp (Mike Heath) writes:
>>/Usr/Lib/Newsbin/Expire/Expire: group `alt.activism' (unmoderated) not covered b
>>y control file (no details given)
>
>Well, no, not the same problem.  Note that your message makes sense, where
>his was curiously mangled.
>
>>The last line of my control file is `all x 10 -'...
>
>Now this is a bit of a mystery; that line ought to be taking care of all
>comers, so expire shouldn't be squawking about uncovered groups.  What
>are the previous few lines like, and the one for alt?

OK, now I feel really stupid.  I saw this error message a few days after I
had fixed my real problem with expire (cron output isn't mailed to me).  I
was calling expire from cron instead of doexpire.  Naturally alt.activism
is the first newgroup in my active file.  A quick test of:

$ expire < /dev/null
expire: group `alt.activism' (unmoderated) not covered by control file (no detai
ls given)

shows the same behaviour.  Sorry for the false alert.  I guess I can take
alt.activism out of explist now.


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