root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) (04/03/89)
I am running news 2.11 B patchlevel 17 on a SCO Xenix 286 machine, and have some problems with it. The expire command /usr/lib/news/expire -e 7 -E 14 -n all,!comp.sys,!misc (executed by "news" user by cron daemon) doesn't remove anything from the spool area /usr/spool/news/, doesn't delete the (new with patchlevel above 9, yes?) /usr/spool/news/.tmp/ garbage files, and occasionally also generates errors like: expire: /usr/spool/news/news/announce/conferences/157: \ Unparsable date "Sun, 14-May-89 19:00:00 EST" expire: /usr/spool/news/news/announce/conferences/158: \ Unparsable date "Sun, 9-Jul-89 19:00:00 EST" expire: /usr/spool/news/news/announce/conferences/159: \ Unparsable date "Wed, 14-Jun-89 19:00:00 EST" expire: /usr/spool/news/news/announce/conferences/160: \ Unparsable date "Sat, 29-Apr-89 18:00:00 EST" expire: /usr/spool/news/news/announce/conferences/161: \ Unparsable date "Wed, 5-Apr-89 18:00:00 EST" expire: /usr/spool/news/news/announce/conferences/162: \ Unparsable date "Sun, 2-Jul-89 19:00:00 EST" Does someone have fixes for these two problems? (Of interest - since I tossed the SCO distribution news binaries in favor of ones I built myself with news sources, no "expire" from patchlevel 9 up to 17 that I built on my system has run correctly (they all failed to ever remove anything). Thanks ------------- Jay Libove jl42@andrew.cmu.edu, libove@cs.cmu.edu, 5731 Centre Ave, Apt 3 gateway.sei.cmu.edu!libove!libove, jl42@andrew.BITnet, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 psuvax1!pitt!darth!libove!libove, (412) 362-8983 or uunet!nfsun!libove!libove