Problems with expiration in Cnews

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2 total messages Started by Leslie S Steckel Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:18

#3384

Author: Leslie S Steckel
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:18

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Hi Folks,

We have been running Cnews at our site for apporximately 2 years with little
or no problems.  Now are having the following problem with the news expiration.

We recently removed a newsfeed from our sys file. Next we deleted the
special newsgroups sent by that site (all americast.* or nptn.*) using the 
"delgroup" program provided with Cnews and then removed the leftover articles
and directories down the /var/spool/news tree using rm.  Now doexpire 
complains that these newsgroups are not covered in the "control file", 
which would appears to be expire file, explist.  We have been able to force 
expire to run by adding these hierarchies back to explist, but this is clearly 
not the right way to proceed.  Has anyone seen this problem before or does 
anyone have any ideas?

Thank you,
Leslie Steckel

syslss@csc.albany.edu

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Re: Problems with expiration in Cnews

#3398

Author: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:51

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In article <1992Oct15.161856.20388@sarah.albany.edu> syslss@sarah.albany.edu (Leslie S Steckel) writes:
>... Now doexpire 
>complains that these newsgroups are not covered in the "control file", 
>which would appears to be expire file, explist.  We have been able to force 
>expire to run by adding these hierarchies back to explist, but this is clearly 
>not the right way to proceed...

The right way to proceed is to have a catch-all entry, such as

	all	x	7	-

at the end of explist, so *any* group not otherwise explicitly mentioned
is nevertheless dealt with properly.

The defunct groups are not gone from your system, for expiry purposes,
until the last history-file entry mentioning them is gone.  That can take
a while.  Deleting the files doesn't delete their history lines.
-- 
MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s.      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
              -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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