brown@sri-unix (11/19/82)
We've had to start running expire to keep the bnews spool area at a reasonable size. There seems to be a problem when someone tries to readnews a group where the first articles (ie. 1) have been expired. Readnews just won't do it. Worse yet, if you do a: readnews -a -p -n net.unix-wizards > /dev/null and then edit the .newsrc file so the highest sequence number is less than actually in the news group it still doesn't work. We've tried a couple of different combinations of options in the .newsrc with no success so far. Before I spend any more time figuring out how readnews works, could someone enlighten me? I've been through readnews.c and most of the supporting functions and sort of understand whats going on, but... The versions of readnews.c and expire.c are respectively: 2.6 and 2.10 both dated 6/21/82. Please mail any hints, suggestions or comments. regards, Mike Brown Kitt Peak National Observatory { ...,mcnc,gi,utah-cs,ucbvax}!arizona!kpno!brown