History not expiring

[Russ Allbery]

Eddie Stassen <eddies at saix.net> writes:

> Now I have noticed something strange.  I was under the impression that
> my daily expire would remove old articles from the history file, but the
> very first entry in my history file has a timestamp of Feb 17 (the day I
> rebuilt my setup) even though my expiry is set for 10 days.  The
> overview seems to be expiring correctly but the history just keeps on
> growing.

What does your nightly news.daily run look like, and what's the /remember/
line in your expire.ctl file?

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>