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From: ken@maxepr.UUCP (Ken Brassler)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: making "expire" work
Message-ID: <496@maxepr.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 20:58:45 GMT
References: <260@bacchus>
Reply-To: ken@maxepr.UUCP (Ken Brassler)
Organization: Brassler Engineering Co., Mill Valley, CA
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In article <260@bacchus> darren@bacchus (Darren Friedlein) writes:
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>but every time I run expire, no matter what the parameters, I get the message:
>
>expire: Cannot get NEWSGRP gr entry
>

If you look though expire.c, you'll see that this error message is
produced when a call to getgrnam() fails. getgrnam() is a library
function, explained in getgrent(3c), which tries to find the group
id, "NEWSGRP", in the /etc/group file. Obviously, the group is not
there.

So, find out what group NEWSGRP is, (ls -l /usr/lib/news) then add it
to /etc/group.
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Ken Brassler {ihnp4|qantel|pyramid|lll-crg}!pacbell!maxepr!ken