Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!grc!don
From: don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Expire Problem
Message-ID: <816@grc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 15:03:29 GMT
Reply-To: don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz)
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Organization: GENROCO, Inc., Slinger, WI
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I have a problem with expiring my news.  Well, maybe even two problems.

First off, I am running on System V Release 2 on an NSC32032 based
machine.  When I run expire, it sends back a message saying that it
cannot open the history file.  I was under the impression that I did
not require the history file as the history information was kept in
the history.d directory.  Why is this thing looking for a history file?
I can make it work if I first create an empty history file and then
using expire -e10 -hIr to expire the news.  Any constructive comments
would be appreciated.

Second problem...the maps!  I do not have enough room on my machine
to keep the maps as articles.  We use uuhosts and pathalias to update
the working version of the maps weekly.  I realize that the new
distribution method for the maps requires longer expiration times, but
I cannot seem to expire these maps at all before the expiration date.
What do I need to do to expire them?
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Don Woelz              {ames, rutgers, harvard}!uwvax!uwmcsd1!grc!don
GENROCO, Inc.                              Phone: 414-644-8700
205 Kettle Moraine Drive North             Fax:   414-644-6667
Slinger, WI 53086                          Telex: 6717062