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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
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Subject: Serious bug in /usr/lib/news/expire (2.10.2 and later).
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 12:44:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 12:44:23 1985
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There is a *SERIOUS* bug in the "expire" program.  Whether you specify the "-u"
option or not, the "active" newsgroup file is ALWAYS updated.  I suppose this
is what's supposed to happen, but, it always sets the "minimum article number"
to be equal to the "maximum article number".  This has the effect that, if
expire is run before any user reads his/her news, they will only see the last
article although the others haven't been expired.  I think that expire SHOULD
set the "minimum article number" to correspond to the lowest numbered file
remaining in the appropriate spool sub-directory (unless it was already less
than that number - the system is, I think, designed to wrap-round).
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