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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
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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