abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) (12/13/89)
Expire has suddenly began failing. There have been no changes to
the News software(that I am aware of). I ran expire with v 6 and
produced copious output.
I used the commands:
echo "DEBUG-Expire all articles after 14 days with copious printout">logfile
/usr/lib/news/expire -I -e 14 -E 30 -v 6 -n all >>logfile
The output from expire looks like:
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DEBUG-Expire all articles after 14 days with copious printout
expire: nohistory 0, rebuild 0, doarchive 0
newsgroups: all
article: <394@eagle.wesleyan.edu> 08<248@uwila.cfht.hawaii.edu> 08/12/89 14:26 gnu.emacs.bug/1287
Retain history of <394@eagle.wesleyan.edu> - 08<248@uwila.cfht.hawaii.edu> GMT
remember: <394@eagle.wesleyan.edu> @ 0
article: <124@bambam.UUCP> 08/13/89 03:02<550@pan.UUCP>
Retain history of <124@bambam.UUCP> - 08/13/89 03:02<550@pan.UUCP> GMT
remember: <124@bambam.uucp> @ 90
:
:
article: <11803@smoke.BRL.MIL> 12/12/89 17:29 sci.environment/3997
Retain history of <11803@smoke.BRL.MIL> - 12/12/89 17:29 GMT
remember: <11803@smoke.brl.mil> @ 4139930
updating active file /usr/lib/news/active
looking at group bnltest
maxart = 00053, minart = 00053
looking at group general
maxart = 00020, minart = 00020
looking at group macsyma
maxart = 00004, minart = 00004
:
:
looking at group alt.dev.null
maxart = 00000, minart = 00000
looking at group comp.security.announce
maxart = 00
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Expire thereupon hung, and ps ax shows expire doing-
10141 ? I 0:00 sh -c /usr/lib/news/run.expire?
10147 ? I 0:00 sh /usr/lib/news/run.expire
10151 ? I N 55:09 rnews -U
13047 ? I N 0:02 rnews -S -p 891206084039ed
13049 ? I N 0:00 sh -c cat /usr/spool/news/.ina13047 | /usr/lib/news/checkgr
13051 ? I N 0:00 sh -c cat /usr/spool/news/.ina13047 | /usr/lib/news/checkgr
13055 ? I N 0:00 sh -c cat /usr/spool/news/.ina13047 | /usr/lib/news/checkgr
13178 ? R N 55:32 egrep -v |^alt[. ?]|^atl[. ?]|^aus[. ?]|^austin[. ?]|^ba[.
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Can anyone give me a clue as to what is going on here?
Thanks in advance,