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Subject: expire not unlinking old articles
Message-ID: <350@megwiz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 01:20:04 EST
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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.
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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
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