Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!metasoft!alan
From: alan@metasoft.UUCP (Alan Epstein)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: expire destroys active and history files
Message-ID: <754@metasoft.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 12:26:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Meta Software Corporation, Cambridge MA
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i'm looking for clues as to why a mysterious behaviour is
occurring (running news 2.11).

everything has been running ok for a quite a while. recently i
made some changes in 'sys' to exclude news groups, and that
seems to be functioning ok, EXCEPT that when expire runs it
variously deletes the active or the history files. i'm sometimes
able to fix sys to stop this by rearranging lines, etc, but
there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why.

it may be interesting to note that the sys file has multiple
continuation lines, but is well under the 1024 character limit.

are there some other undocumented constraints on the sys file,
or is there some other entirely different poltergeist that i'm
facing?

PLEASE SEND REPLIES VIA E-MAIL.

thanks.

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Alan Epstein
Meta Software Corp                   UUCP:  ...bbn!metasoft!alan
150 Cambridgepark Dr        Internet/ARPA:  alan%metasoft@bbn.com
Cambridge, MA 02140  USA
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