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) Organization: home Lines: 17 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