Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews expire over two disk partitions
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.184912.28469@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <89LFF0Y@xavier.swarthmore.edu> <1990Feb28.171024.25365@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 18:49:12 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...

Geoff points out that you will probably need to run expire with the -l
option, since relaynews will be creating symbolic links across filesystems
for cross-posted articles.  However, that doesn't explain the problem
you describe.
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