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From: greg@ncr-tp.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: Serious bug in /usr/lib/news/expire (2.10.2 and later).
Message-ID: <219@ncr-tp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 02:16:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncr-tp.219
Posted: Wed Jun  5 02:16:18 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Jun-85 03:33:46 EDT
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Organization: NCR Corporation, Torrey Pines
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In article <171@dcl-cs.UUCP> stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
>....  I think that expire SHOULD
>set the "minimum article number" to correspond to the lowest numbered file
>remaining in the appropriate spool sub-directory ....

It does -- at least, it is supposed to.  You don't say which flavor of
operating system has this problem, but I found a bug that causes these
symptoms to occur on a Pyramid running in the ATT universe.  (It has
to do with the fact that the directories in the ATT universe aren't
exactly as the System V documentation specifies.  Normally, what you
get is close enough, but in this case, it wasn't.)  I sent the fix to
rick@seismo.arpa so there's hope that it will be fixed in 2.10.3, but
in the meantime if you think it might be relevant, contact me and I
will send you the fix.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Torrey Pines       Greg@ncr-tp.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA