Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ukma!ukecc!edward From: edward@engr.uky.edu (Edward C. Bennett) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: HELP with expire Message-ID: <1866@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> Date: 17 Dec 87 17:21:02 GMT References: <775@grc.UUCP> Reply-To: edward@engr.uky.edu (Edward C. Bennett) Followup-To: news.software.b Distribution: na Organization: Univ. of KY Engineering Computing Center Lines: 24 In article <775@grc.UUCP> don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz) writes: ]I am having much trouble getting expire to work correctly on my ]system. It seems that the only thing that works correctly is ] ] expire -hir ] ](some of the options may be redundant, I know). But just plain ]expire won't work and neither will expire -i or expire -I or ]expire -e10 -[iI]. ] ]I am running System V Release 2 on a NSC32000 based machine. I can't tell you how to fix it I can tell you that I have the same problem. My "solution" is to just include the -h flag and then weekly rebuild the history file. (Yeah, yeah, I know, 'expire -r' losses all the information on past articles. I'm on a leaf node, I don't care.) One of these days I plan to take expire apart and fix it.... -- Edward C. Bennett DOMAIN: edward@engr.uky.edu UUCP: {cbosgd|uunet}!ukma!ukecc!edward "Goodnight M.A." BITNET: edward%ukecc.uucp@ukma "He's become a growling, snarling white-hot mass of canine terror"