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From: hyc@starbarlounge.cc.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Help- expire problem
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 01:48:00 EDT
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In article <170@bnl.ARPA> abrams@bnl.UUCP (Karl L. Abrams) writes:
%	I have finally gotten around to installing version 2.11 of news,
%and find that expire seems to be doing funny things to the history file.
%When an article is due to expire, it is removed from the spool, but its
%entry in history is only partially removed.  For example, [omitted]
%...
%All articles older than 14 days have this done to them, and the history file
%is growing longer every day.
%	We are running Ultrix2.0 on a VAX780, and I know of another site,
%BSD 4.3, on which the same thing is happening.
%	Has anyone encountered this problem?  
%		Thanks in advance.....
%
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That's not exactly the normal behavior, but that's documented... You run
expire with the '-e xx' flag to delete articles after xx days, and with
'-E xx' to remove them from the history file after xx days. Of course, the
docs say that by default, articles will be removed from the history files
at the same time that they're deleted from the spool directory. That is,
usually you don't need to specify the -E option...