🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BzqItJ.L16@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

   >In article <Bzo27w.2Lv@ssr.com> sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne) writes:
   >>Unless you use the -v flag to get expire statistics...
   >-v has nothing to do with it.  

-v has eveything to do with it. Here are the lines from the end of doexpire:

	if test -s /tmp/doex$$
	then
		(echo 'expire problems:' ; cat /tmp/doex$$ ) | mail "$NEWSMASTER"
		rm -f /tmp/doex$$
		exit 1
	fi
	rm -f /tmp/doex$$ $NEWSCTL/history.o
	exit 0

If one passes the -v flag to doexpire, the /tmp/doex$$ will not be a
non-zero size, and the exit 1 will be performed, and the history.o
file will not be removed. It's the same code that causes people to
keep asking you how to fix the 'expire problems' that -v
causes....

This is the doexpire from the nov release, so perhaps this is a change
from earlier versions.