Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdahl!bnrmtv!robin From: robin@bnrmtv.UUCP (Robin Coutellier) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Expire not expiring news? Message-ID: <6148@bnrmtv.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 89 07:16:55 GMT References: <2483@pte.UUCP> Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 14 From article <2483@pte.UUCP>, by kiy@pte.UUCP (Kevin Young): > Well I'm somewhat of a beginner at newsadmin but when I have that > problem I manually run the line: > > expire -p -e30 -E30 > > This has the effect of expiring articles which were *posted* more than > 30 days in the past. This could be put into the cron file but I just I had a similar problem about a month or so ago, and repeated expire commands were not working. I finally recompiled the expire command -- THEN it worked. Robin Coutellier