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From: don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: expire problem
Message-ID: <782@grc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 87 14:58:23 GMT
Reply-To: don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz)
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Organization: GENROCO, Inc., Slinger, WI
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I am still having problems with my expire command and have not received
any response or help from my previous posting.

When I run expire from a shell script late every night, nothing gets
expired.  If I run it manually, I get the same results.

If I run    expire -hir   (I know it looks redundant), I get
the following message:

expire: Cannot open ///usr/lib/news/history (r): No such file or directory

I have the history.d and history.od directories and their appropriate
contents in the correct place.  Why is it looking for a history file?
If I create an empty history file, it expires okay using the above
expire command, but there is no history file left when it is done.  Only
the history.d and history.od directories and their contents.

What is happening here?

FYI, I am running System V Release 2 on an NSC 32032 based CPU on the Qbus.
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Don Woelz              {ames, rutgers, harvard}!uwvax!uwmcsd1!grc!don
GENROCO, Inc.                              Phone: 414-644-8700
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