dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) (04/23/89)
Expiring with a command like
expire -e 7 -E 15 -a comp.sources ...
I found that this not only archived the specified newsgroups, but also
expired *all other newsgroups*. The above command line is taken by
expire to mean:
expire -e 7 -E 15 -n all -a comp.sources ...
This resulted in our losing articles in 7 days in all newsgroups, even
some local ones for which we wanted longer expiration periods.
This is true for:
#define PATCHLEVEL 13
#define NEWS_VERSION "B 2.11 11/19/87"
This bug report is posted here to you won't be frustrated by the same
problem. The work-around is to explicitly specify newsgroup names to
both -n and -a switches.
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