[news.software.b] Expire and history question

amos@placer1.COM (Kevin Amos) (08/12/88)

Cron executes the following:

     expire -n junk -e 0
     expire -e 4

but does not seem to remove articles that are older than 4 days
or get rid of articles in junk.

So I ran the following script on our Sun 3 to get rid of old articles
and rebuild the history.d and history.od directorys:

( find /placer1_2d/news \( -size 0 -o -mtime +4 \) -exec rm -f {} \; ;
/usr/lib/news/expire -r  ) &

This removes old articles but the history.d and history.od
directorys have files from 1-10 with nothing in them.

Could someone explain how expire uses and rebuilds history?
Is there a problem with my expire?

Thank You

Kevin Amos
Placer Dome Inc.