Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!bellboy!hack
From: hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: expire: EXPIRE!!
Message-ID: <1169@bellboy.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 88 18:11:42 GMT
References: <451@balaena.UUCP>
Reply-To: hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
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In article <451@balaena.UUCP> wezel@balaena.UUCP (Jos C. van Wezel) writes:

If this does nothing:

>  expire -e 7 -E 8

And this works:
 
>  expire -r -I -e 7
>  expire -n all

It sounds like the articles are missing from the history file, and
therfore can't expire them. In the second case, the history file is
first rebuilt. So might the problem be with inews rather than expire?

--
Greg