Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews expire over two disk partitions
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.171024.25365@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <89LFF0Y@xavier.swarthmore.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 17:10:24 GMT

In article <89LFF0Y@xavier.swarthmore.edu> hirai@cs.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
>Anyway, we were running out of space on our /var disk so I moved the rec.*
>and comp.* groups over to another disk named /var2 and established symbolic
>links...   the articles in rec and comp aren't being expired
>at all.  I'm hand-expiring the articles with find -mtime right now.  Am I
>doing something wrong...

Something is fishy somewhere, but I don't know what it would be.  Expire
really doesn't know anything about directories at all; so long as opening
.../comp/sources/unix/2345 still gives the right file, and the file can
be unlinked, expire should be completely unaffected by symbolic links
en route.  Are you sure that /var2 is mounted at the time when expire runs?
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