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From: tombre@crin.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: why doesn't expire work as it should?
Message-ID: <247@crin.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 16:01:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: crin.247
Posted: Thu May 14 16:01:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 14:48:27 EDT
Reply-To: tombre@crin.UUCP (Karl Tombre)
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As we have limited space in our spool directory, I want to expire some news
sooner than others. That is :
  - not important news after 3 days (rec, soc). (Happily, we don't get talk)
  - high-traffic newsgroups which nearly nobody here read after 7 days
(all the comp.sys groups at the moment)

The others are supposed to be expired after 15 days :

Here are my crontab entries for doing this :

0 0 * * * /usr/lib/news/expire
30 5 * * * /usr/lib/news/expire -n comp.sys -e 7 -I
0 6 * * * /usr/lib/news/expire -n rec,soc -e 3 -I

Well, it seemed to work, but today I noticed that in comp.sys, there were
many articles as old as one month. I thought something with the cron
commands was garbled, so I ran the expire manually. Some articles were
cleared away, but many remained. I also tried without spaces between e and 7
( ... -e7 -v2 ...) without any change.

Why doesn't expire work properly? We have been running news 2.11 for several
months now. The version of expire.c is 2.46, date 9/19/86, according to a
"strings" on /usr/lib/news/expire.

Somebody knows where the problem lies? 

-- 
--- Karl Tombre @ CRIN (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy)
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