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Article #3313Re: preventing articles from expiring
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 22:46
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 22:46
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In article <1992Oct2.181437.18855@schbbs.mot.com> mshah@next3.corp.mot.com writes: >We have a news group that carries some standards which do not change >frequently. They are set to expire in 365 days. Is there a way to >get around this and prevent this articles from expiring after the >set period of 365 days which is the max. allowable limit for the version of >news we are running... I don't know what kind of weird system you are using -- certainly stock C News, which is what your message ID would suggest, has no such limit -- but the fast answer is "you're going to have to fix the software". If it's not a software limitation, just a question of overriding an explicit expiry date, then C New's "retention period" feature -- see the expire(8) manual page -- is exactly what you want. (Amazing... Somebody actually found a use for it... :-)) -- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: news.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: preventing articles from expiring Message-ID: <Bvo78t.r2@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:46:04 GMT References: <1992Oct2.181437.18855@schbbs.mot.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 18