Expiry working, but...

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I chose the option of setting groupbaseexpiry to false and using lines like:

4:14:90:90

in expire.ctl.  Still no go.  Old articles and overview are not getting expired.
Is this related to the fact our storage method is CNFS?

Tom

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Mirek Luc wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> 
> > I have expire.ctl set up thusly:
> >     2:A:14:14:14
> >     3:A:14:14:14
> >     4:A:14:90:90
> > Where classes 2 & 3 are for non-local newsgroups and class 4 is for local
> > newsgroups.  I also tried:
> >     2:14:14:14
> >     3:14:14:14
> >     4:14:90:90
> > In inn.conf, I have groupbasedexpiry set to true, and I run news.daily from a
> See expire.ctl(5):
>      Most of the lines in this file will be in the second format,
>      either four or five colon-separated fields as follows:
>           classnum:keep:default:purge
>      or
>           pattern:modflag:keep:default:purge
>           ^^^^^^^
>      The former is  used  for  class  based  expiry  which  means
>      ``groupbaseexpiry''  in  inn.conf(5)  is  ``false'', and the
>      latter is used for group based expiry which  means  ``group-
>      baseexpiry''  in inn.conf is ``true''.  Both formats can not
>      coexist each other.
> 
> It means you should put in your expire.ctl something like this:
> <non-local-newsgroups-PATTERN>:A:14:14:14
> <local-newsgroups-PATTERN>:A:14:90:90
> 
> -Mirek
> 
> 
>