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3 total messages Started by Rich Bauer Sun, 27 Dec 1992 18:25

#4714

Author: Rich Bauer
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 18:25

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In /usr/lib/news/active, how do configure the file so that a few
groups are NEVER expired.  Right now I just put a large number 
in the field, but is there some way to make it so that the number
is never reached?


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Re: active file

#4715

Author: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:38

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In article <1992Dec27.182536.18576@cpp.uucp> root@cpp.uucp (Rich Bauer) writes:
>In /usr/lib/news/active, how do configure the file so that a few
>groups are NEVER expired...

Uh, this has nothing to do with "active".  Are you thinking of "explist"?
(Your message-ID form suggests you're talking about C News, although that
is something you should have specified.)  Modern C News expires understand
"never" to mean infinity, with proper safeguards against overflow etc.
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       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

Re: active file

#4721

Author: Rich Bauer
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:50

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In article <Bzy4JG.Do1@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1992Dec27.182536.18576@cpp.uucp> root@cpp.uucp (Rich Bauer) writes:
>>In /usr/lib/news/active, how do configure the file so that a few
>>groups are NEVER expired...
>
>Uh, this has nothing to do with "active".  Are you thinking of "explist"?
>(Your message-ID form suggests you're talking about C News, although that
>is something you should have specified.)  Modern C News expires understand
>"never" to mean infinity, with proper safeguards against overflow etc.

Yes, I meant the "explist" file.  Thanks for the help.  I will put the
word never where the number is.


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