Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MMDF+2.11; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!ukc!lmcl From: lmcl@ukc.UUCP (L.M.McLoughlin) Newsgroups: net.news.adm Subject: Re: zero-length article bug found in inews.c et. al. Message-ID: <221@ukc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 18:02:09 EDT Article-I.D.: ukc.221 Posted: Wed Sep 11 18:02:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 09:54:59 EDT References: <830@burl.UUCP> <646@astrovax.UUCP> Reply-To: lee@kcl-cs.UUCP (L M J McLoughlin) Organization: U of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK Lines: 10 Expire on a pdp11 is a highly untrustworthy program. I advise a weekly (or more often if space is tight) "find /usr/spool/news -type f -a -mtime +DAYS -a -exec rm -f {} \;" where DAYS is one more than your expire time (the extra day is a margin of error). I started this when I discovered about a meg of old news files that expire was ignoring. Of course if anyone out there has actually managed to fix it I'd be most grateful for a copy.