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From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: why doesn't expire work as it should?
Message-ID: <152@csccat.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 04:35:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: csccat.152
Posted: Tue May 19 04:35:31 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 03:32:57 EDT
References: <247@crin.UUCP> <802@instable.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Carrollton,Texas.
Lines: 15
Summary: I have the same problem!

In article <802@instable.UUCP>, amos@instable.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
> I have noticed that when the system is down at midnight on the day
> an article should have expired and 'expire' didn't run that night,
> that article is not expired the next night, or ever. I run a 'find -mtime +nn'
> now and then to locate those which are really old and remove them.
> 	Amos Shapir

I have had the same problem, I use to expire on a 14 day schedule but
reduced it to 7 days and noticed a week later that it did not reduce
my disc space reqirements. Looked in the spool directory and found
1000+ files greater than 7 days old! Not only that but I found a bunch
of bogus file numbers like 56702,23001...etc.

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