root@megwiz.UUCP (Root) (12/12/86)
Well after running 2.11 for a month now I have a small problem with expire. It seems that it won't expire an article unless I do expire -p There doesn't seem to be any expire line in the news article header. So the only place it can get a date is from the date line. These are the questions that have arose. 1) Should there be an Expire: field on each article and if so when and where is it created. 2) If expire uses this field why are articles reaching me without them. This is on a Sys V implementation of unix and any help would be apreciated greatly. I used expire -v8 to no availe. It wasn't until I used expire -p -v8 that I saw the files unlinked and my disk space freed Also can someone tell me what expire is really doing when it recreates the active and history files. Vance Turner Silicon Compilers Inc. 408-371-2900 San Jose, Calif. 95125 decwrl!vance@sci
dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis Bednar) (12/28/86)
> > There doesn't seem to be any expire line in the > news article header. So the only place it can get a date is from > the date line. You neglected to mention *which* date line you were referring to. I assume that you meant the "Date:" line in the article itself. There also is the <date> field within each line of the history file. It is not clear from the man page on expire(8) which *date* field expire(8) uses by default (if you don't use -i or -I): - the history file field (the time the article arrived), or - the Date: field in the article itself (the time the article was created). -- -Dennis Bednar {decvax,ihnp4,harpo,allegra}!seismo!rlgvax!dennis UUCP