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From: schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Michael Schwager)
Subject: Re: Problems with expire in CNews
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.160705.29971@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
References: <1991Apr23.170825.8303@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr23.212341.5125@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 16:07:05 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>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?
	Yes
>How old is it?  (It
>should date to the last time expire was run.)

It's dated as of around 2 am.  I start the expire at 1am.  I have it send
me mail every night when expire is run; I've been getting it regularly.  Of
course, this only means that cron has fired it up.

>Is anyone reading the
>mail to "usenet" (or whoever you specified as the destination for trouble
>reports)?

Yup, I am.  What should I look for?
-Mike