Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!cae780!weitek!sci!megwiz!root From: root@megwiz.UUCP (Root) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: expire not unlinking old articles Message-ID: <350@megwiz.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 01:20:04 EST Article-I.D.: megwiz.350 Posted: Fri Dec 12 01:20:04 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 05:57:10 EST Organization: Silicon Compilers Inc., San Jose, Calif. Lines: 24 Well after running 2.11 for a month now I have a small problem with expire. It seems that it won't expire an article unless I do expire -p There doesn't seem to be any expire line in the news article header. So the only place it can get a date is from the date line. These are the questions that have arose. 1) Should there be an Expire: field on each article and if so when and where is it created. 2) If expire uses this field why are articles reaching me without them. This is on a Sys V implementation of unix and any help would be apreciated greatly. I used expire -v8 to no availe. It wasn't until I used expire -p -v8 that I saw the files unlinked and my disk space freed Also can someone tell me what expire is really doing when it recreates the active and history files. Vance Turner Silicon Compilers Inc. 408-371-2900 San Jose, Calif. 95125 decwrl!vance@sci