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From: robbin@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA (Robbin W. Johnson)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with expire - old files still around
Summary: Eureka! I have got it!
Message-ID: <581@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA>
Date: 4 Aug 88 19:54:59 GMT
References: <566@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA> <543@unisv.UUCP>
Reply-To: robbin@resrch.MoliEnergy.BC.CA (Robbin W. Johnson)
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Organization: Moli Energy Ltd., Burnaby, BC, CANADA
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In article <543@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>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.
>
>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 have HP9K5 #defined.  That was not the problem. [BTW- the file system
on the 500 is not Berkeley or SYSV ... it is an HP original that has
caused me more than a few headaches with software off of the net.  Now
that HP has (or is about to) drop the 500 series off the price list
there will *never* be a real native UN*X kernel.  HP-UX on the 500 runs
on top of a little beastie call SUN (No! Not *that* Sun!). Heavy sigh!]

Anyway, back to my problem!

IT SEEMS TO HAVE CURED ITSELF!  I must have read the manual wrong.  I
thought that running 'expire -r' would not only rebuild the history files
but also expire any and all old articles.  Apparently it did not do the
expire!  The next morning I came in and 'df' told me I had 10MB more
disk free than when I left the night before.  I quickly checked the
/usr/spool/news heirarchy and lo' and behold all those nasty files had
disappeared!  I will not ask why, I am just happy that it did.

Thanks for the attention.  It is always nice to know that someone out
there is listening.
-- 
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