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From: mohamed@hscfvax.UUCP (750025@Mohamed_el_Lozy)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: absurd expires dates crash expire (Fix)
Message-ID: <453@hscfvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 14:56:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: hscfvax.453
Posted: Mon Aug 10 14:56:12 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Aug-87 04:53:01 EDT
References: <2525@hoptoad.uucp> <2821@phri.UUCP> <1371@epimass.EPI.COM> <2664@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
Lines: 10
Summary: Using expire -e4 talk solves this

In article <2664@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> It never rains but pours.  While we were arguing about expiration dates,
> my nightly expire was crashing three nights in a row.  The third night
> I added "-v" to the script so I could see where it was dying.  It was
> dying on this message:
> 

That article got expired painlessly here.  I expire talk with -e4 flag, so
I guess that getdate never gets called.  One more plus for expire -e!!!!
Applied the fix though, as you never know when it will come in handy.