msk@afinitc.UUCP (Morris Kahn) (03/08/84)
Does anyone out there have either:
1) An "expire" program for 2.10.1 news that doesn't need the "history"
of "log" files to execute properly? or
2) A program to rebuild the "log" and "history" files for "expire" to use?
I just inadvertently destroyed my log/history files which I had been saving
just so I could begin to use "expire" instead of the manual "find" commands
I had been using up to now. I used to throw logs and historys away until I
discovered that "expire" needs them! And now I lost them again!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Thanks in advance (as it is said)
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From the terminal of Morris Kahn (...!ihnp4!afinitc!msk)north@down.UUCP (Professor X) (03/09/84)
When we discovered that "expire -eN" (B news 2.11) doesn't work, and that only the DFLTEXP in defs.h of B news 2.11 is EVER USED, our confidence in the whole expire/history/log/mumble scheme dropped to zero and we replaced it with a nice friendly "find" command that always does what we want it to. Stephen C North
fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (03/11/84)
In point of fact, expire -eN doesn't work. However, expire -e N does work.
The space makes all the difference. At least it does with our version
B 2.10.1+some
Erik E. Fair
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