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Subject: Re: why doesn't expire work on news.* ?
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 02:08:53 EDT
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In article <12600@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw) writes:
>My crontab entry on my Ultrix system for expire is
>
>	0 3 * * * /usr/lib/news/expire -i -n ba ca comp junk \
>	  misc mod msgs net news rec sci soc talk

the last time I had to set things up on a system that wanted to do
archiving with expire, I found with some testing that the newsgroups
list have to be

	1. separated by commas
	2. one argument on the command line

Thus giving:

0 3 * * * /usr/lib/news/expire -i -n ba,ca,comp,junk,misc,mod,msgs,net,news,rec,sci,soc,talk

Incidentally, this is consistent with argument processing throughout
netnews...

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu