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From: robbin@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA (Robbin W. Johnson)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Help with expire - old files still around
Message-ID: <566@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA>
Date: 26 Jul 88 21:03:47 GMT
Reply-To: robbin@resrch.UUCP (Robbin W. Johnson)
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Organization: Moli Energy Ltd., Burnaby, BC, CANADA
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I *appear* to be having problems with expire leaving old (some very old)
files in the news spool file system and so I seek some help.

Because of tight disk space, I expire news daily (in the wee hours) with
the options "-e 7 -E 21".  For the most part, this removes old articles
and keeps everyone involved happy.  In perusing through the file system
I recently discovered *a lot* of older file that should have been long
ago removed.  One that caught my eye was dated Jan. 22 and received here
on Jan. 26!  There is no Expires: line in amongst the headers.  This is
by no means the only culprit.  Nearly every sub-directory has articles
that are over 1 week old (my explicit expire age), many of which are the
several months old.

Thinking that this was a problem with munged history files, I decided to
run "expire -r".  This made no difference and these old files are still
out there :-(.

I am running 2.11 B news at patch level 14 on an HP9000/500 running
HP-UX version 5.21.  I have not hacked at the sources in any way.

Any help or pointers as to how to attack this problem would be
appreciated.  If you respond by mail I will summarize once the verdict
is in.

Thanks.
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