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From: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with expire - old files still around
Summary: Bet the file system is still Berzerkley.
Message-ID: <543@unisv.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 00:56:34 GMT
References: <566@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA>
Reply-To: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
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Organization: Unisys Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA
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In article <566@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA> robbin@resrch.UUCP (Robbin W. Johnson) writes:
>
>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.

>In perusing through the file system
>I recently discovered *a lot* of older file that should have been long
>ago removed.

>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.

I ran into exactly this same problem on a Unisys 7000/40 running
System V.  There is a tag you need to #define in your localize.sh
file when you build news -- HP9K5.  All this seems to do is to tell
News that, even though you're a SYSV site, your file systems are
still Berkeley.  News reads the directories like they're files,
and expects them to look like the kind of file system it expects.

I had worse problems than expire not deleteing the spool/news files -- It
marked most of the messages as non-existant in the newslib/active file! 
Turning on HP9K5 fixed the problems up for me.
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