Re: Cnews expire over two disk partitions

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 18:49

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In article <89LFF0Y@xavier.swarthmore.edu> hirai@cs.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
>Anyway, we were running out of space on our /var disk so I moved the rec.*
>and comp.* groups over to another disk named /var2 and established symbolic
>links...   the articles in rec and comp aren't being expired...

Geoff points out that you will probably need to run expire with the -l
option, since relaynews will be creating symbolic links across filesystems
for cross-posted articles.  However, that doesn't explain the problem
you describe.
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"The N in NFS stands for Not, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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Subject: Re: Cnews expire over two disk partitions
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