Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!van-bc!placer1!amos From: amos@placer1.COM (Kevin Amos) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Expire and history question Keywords: expire, history Message-ID: <174@placer1.COM> Date: 11 Aug 88 21:12:48 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Placer Dome Inc., Vancouver, BC. Lines: 24 Cron executes the following: expire -n junk -e 0 expire -e 4 but does not seem to remove articles that are older than 4 days or get rid of articles in junk. So I ran the following script on our Sun 3 to get rid of old articles and rebuild the history.d and history.od directorys: ( find /placer1_2d/news \( -size 0 -o -mtime +4 \) -exec rm -f {} \; ; /usr/lib/news/expire -r ) & This removes old articles but the history.d and history.od directorys have files from 1-10 with nothing in them. Could someone explain how expire uses and rebuilds history? Is there a problem with my expire? Thank You Kevin Amos Placer Dome Inc.