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From: schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Michael Schwager)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problems with expire in CNews
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.195538.10238@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 19:55:38 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.170825.8303@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr23.212341.5125@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr24.160705.29971@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr24.180649.14798@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>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.

Well, unfortunately I went and cleaned up a files throughout my directory,
so I can't do a newshist.  But if the problem persists, I'm sure it will
turn up again.

I went and cleaned up my explist file considerably.  I'm somewhat
embarrassed to admit that I didn't catch the part about the line ordering.
So this could very well take care of it.
-Mike