Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems with expire in CNews
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.180649.14798@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 18:06:49 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.170825.8303@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr23.212341.5125@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr24.160705.29971@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr24.160705.29971@m.cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Michael Schwager) writes:
>>...Is there a history.o file in /usr/lib/news?
>	Yes	[and the date is right]

Okay, sounds like expire is running.  Also, you're not getting any bizarre
complaints in mail.  So the next question is:  are those persistent articles
in your history file?  The newshist command can tell you that.

Actually, another question is, are you *sure* that the explist line for that
newsgroup is in fact the one that's being applied?  An earlier line which
also covers that group will cause its line to be ignored.  A look at your
whole explist, not just that line, is in order.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry