[news.software.b] Expire leaks

jbrown@herron.uucp (Jordan Brown) (06/29/90)

In article <117@tdatirv.UUCP>, swf@tdatirv.UUCP (swf) writes:
> 	We seem to be having a problem with expire here, it is leaking.
> That is it is leaving an 'occasional' article un-expired.  This is eating
> up a good bit of disk space on our rather small machine. Any idea what is
> causing this and what to do about it?

Don't know if it's your problem, but I can tell you about one I saw
on an AIX/386 system... The default filesize limit is 4 megabytes,
and a decent history file is longer than that.  Articles posted
when the history file was "too long" didn't get into it, and so never
got expired.
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Jordan Brown
jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov