cmoore@amdimage.UUCP (chris moore) (03/06/85)
I hope this is the right newsgroup for this - apologies if
it isn't.
For some reason, expire doesn't seem to be expiring old articles.
I really don't know for sure how expire decides what to look at,
but I set the expiration time at 1 week when I compiled the
news stuff. Expire runs every night, but for some reason we still
have a lot of articles sitting around that are over a week old. I
checked them, and they don't have an explicit expire date in them.
How does expire know what to look at to consider expiring news?
If there is no 'expires' line in the file, does it just check
last modified date?
Is this a known problem? Is there a known (but not by me) fix
for this?
Thanks in advance for you help.
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