hirai@cs.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) (02/28/90)
I'm using Cnews 18-Jan-1990 on a MicrovaxII running Ultrix32 3.1. 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 in /var/spool/news/rec/* and /var/spool/news/comp/* to point to /var2/news/rec and /var2/news/comp. After I did this, the articles in rec and comp aren't being expired at all. I'm hand-expiring the articles with find -mtime right now. Am I doing something wrong or is expire not supposed to encounter articles residing on two disks? -- Eiji Hirai @ Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 19081 hirai@cs.swarthmore.edu || hirai@swarthmr.bitnet || rutgers!bpa!swatsun!hirai
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (03/01/90)
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 >at all. I'm hand-expiring the articles with find -mtime right now. Am I >doing something wrong... Something is fishy somewhere, but I don't know what it would be. Expire really doesn't know anything about directories at all; so long as opening .../comp/sources/unix/2345 still gives the right file, and the file can be unlinked, expire should be completely unaffected by symbolic links en route. Are you sure that /var2 is mounted at the time when expire runs? -- "The N in NFS stands for Not, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (03/01/90)
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. -- "The N in NFS stands for Not, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu