Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems with expire in CNews
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.212341.5125@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 21:23:41 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.170825.8303@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr23.170825.8303@m.cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Michael Schwager) writes:
>Now, from what I know, this means that the articles will be removed from
>our disk in 4 days, but as you can see it's not happening.  Can anyone
>explain why?

The first thing you need to check is whether expire is, in fact, being
run.  Is there a history.o file in /usr/lib/news?  How old is it?  (It
should date to the last time expire was run.)  Is anyone reading the
mail to "usenet" (or whoever you specified as the destination for trouble
reports)?
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