cmoore@amdimage.UUCP (chris moore) (03/21/85)
Thanks to all those who responded to my questions about
why my expire wasn't working. For those who may have
similar problems, here is what I found:
A normal "vanilla" expire will search the history file
to see which articles exist and should be considered
for expiration.
In my case, we had several times when news failed because
the file system filled up, and apparently articles showed
up but didn't get into the history file. Using the '-h'
option on the expire command tells it to ignore the history
file and look at what's really there in the directory trees.
The '-r' option on expire tells it to rebuild the history
file and bring it up to date.
Our expire now seems to be correctly deleteing old articles.
Again, thanks to those who responded, and I hope this
information helps others with similar problems.
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"My system is so slow we don't use 'who' anymore - it's faster to
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Chris Moore (408) 749-4692
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