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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Expire doesn't allow 1-day expirations?
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Date: 10 Mar 88 20:21:04 GMT
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Configuration is Pyramid 98x, heavily patched OSx 4.0, news 2.11
patchlevel 12.

We are having trouble with our news filesystem getting blown out.
It's much too small (we're waiting for new discs to show up), but we
need to try to cope with it as it is.  So I tried setting up the talk
groups to expire in 1 day with
	expire -e1 -E14 -n talk
but I found this morning when my news filesystem blew out again
(sigh...) that there are articles in the talk.* newsgroups which are
as old as the day I made the above change, that is, once I set up
1-day expiration, nothing in talk.* ever expired.

For the time being, I decided to take a simplistic approach, and I now
`expire' talk.* with
	find /usr/spool/news/talk -mtime +0 -type f -exec rm {} ';'
which has the appropriate effect, but I'd rather be doing it The Right
Way.  Does anyone know if this problem has shown up elsewhere before?

By the way, you might be on the lookout for articles in talk.bizarre
with Expires: headers in them...

--Karl