Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!mumble!karl From: karl@mumble.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Problem with expire Message-ID: <3188@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 14 Dec 87 16:40:53 GMT References: <425@wa3wbu.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Lines: 20 In-reply-to: john@wa3wbu.UUCP's message of 12 Dec 87 16:15:36 GMT john@wa3wbu.UUCP writes: I received a message back from cron stating that "expire" couldnt run. The message I received was: expire: Cannot get NEWSGRP gr entry Can anyone give me a hint as to the cause of this and better yet, what would be the most preferred way to go about fixing it ? The software is complaining because it can't find the textual name of the group which is supposed to own the news software. That is, if it's "news," there is no "news" in /etc/group. By the way, a general plug for updates: I heartily recommend 2.11 patchlevel 12. We've been running it on the SysV.3 3B2 that feeds this department for about 2 weeks, and on our main news-serving system for 5 days. Very stable. Very nice. Takes care of map updates in comp.mail.maps nicely via the Supersedes: headers. We haven't been daring enough yet to install #13 and #14...:-) -=- Karl