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From: john@xanth.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Fixing up your news system (handy script)
Message-ID: <1804@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 13:24:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1804
Posted: Sun Aug  2 13:24:04 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 22:03:49 EDT
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: active expire.8

THNX TO:<rlong@felix.UUCP>
for pointing out that 2.11 news expire is supposed to rebuild the
active file, and that therefore my script was unnecessary.  That's
what I get for reading the manual instead of the source. :-)

Enclosed are diffs to expire.8 to reflect the current behavior:

*** /tmp/,RCSt1026786	Sun Aug  2 13:19:19 1987
--- expire.8	Sun Aug  2 13:18:43 1987
***************
*** 49,54 ****
--- 49,59 ----
  because of the history file. If you just delete messages, then the history
  file will become incorrect because it will show that they are still there.
  .PP
+ .I Expire
+ will also update the minimum and maximum article numbers for each group in
+ the active file, which is useful when upgrading from 2.10.1 or earlier versions
+ of news and also when some disaster causes your active file to be out-of-date.
+ .PP
  The normal use of
  .I expire
  is to run it at regular intervals with no options.
***************
*** 229,235 ****
  the spooling directory, and then it will rebuild the history file.
  .TP
  \-u
! causes the minimum article-number field in the active file to be updated.
  This is used when converting from 2.10.1 news to later versions.
  .SH SEE ALSO
  inews(8),
--- 234,241 ----
  the spooling directory, and then it will rebuild the history file.
  .TP
  \-u
! causes the minimum and maximum article-number fields in the active file
! to be updated, but no expiration to be done.
  This is used when converting from 2.10.1 news to later versions.
  .SH SEE ALSO
  inews(8),

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John Owens		Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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