article would not expire

Olivier Nicole on at cs.ait.ac.th
Fri Jun 22 05:52:51 UTC 2001


Hello,

Sorry for disturbing, but I can get to solve that p[roblem by myself.

expire.ctl is like this:

/remember/:21
*:A:8:14:14
*.answers:M:35:35:90
comp.*:A:40:40:60
news.announce.*:M:1:10:14
*.test:A:1:1:1
rec.*:A:1:4:4
soc.*:A:8:14:14
talk:A:4:8:8
control:A:0:0:1
junk:A:0:0:1
alt:A:1:4:4
de:A:0:0:1
free:A:0:0:1

at night I run, by cron: 

0 3 * * * /usr/local/news/bin/news.daily expireover lowmark delayrm

expire.log looks like this:

expireover start Fri Jun 22 03:00:07 ICT 2001: ( -z/news/log/expire.rm -Z/news/l
og/expire.lowmark)
    Article lines processed   852347
    Articles dropped           17171
    Overview index dropped     20655
expireover end Fri Jun 22 03:14:46 ICT 2001
lowmarkrenumber begin Fri Jun 22 03:14:46 ICT 2001: (/news/log/expire.lowmark)
lowmarkrenumber end Fri Jun 22 03:14:47 ICT 2001
        expirerm start Fri Jun 22 03:14:48 ICT 2001
        expirerm end Fri Jun 22 03:24:58 ICT 2001
expire begin Fri Jun 22 03:25:28 ICT 2001: (-v1)
    Article lines processed  1117577
    Articles retained        1100111
    Entries expired            17466
    Old entries dropped        74476
    Old entries retained      566741
expire end Fri Jun 22 04:24:39 ICT 2001
        all done Fri Jun 22 04:24:39 ICT 2001


And still I have a bunch of outdated article still floating around,
for example (talk should expire within 8 days at max):

ufo<root>62: ls -lrt spool/articles/talk/bizarre/|more
total 457
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news    599 Mar  1 07:15 39292
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   3068 Mar  1 13:35 39293
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   1203 Mar  1 14:33 39294
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   3101 Mar  1 21:15 39295
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   1572 Mar  1 22:15 39296
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news  12627 Mar  2 05:15 39297
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   2091 Mar  2 05:45 39298
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   1067 Mar  2 06:15 39300
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   1319 Mar  2 06:15 39301
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   1051 Mar  2 06:15 39299
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   1093 Mar  2 08:18 39302
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   1465 Mar  2 18:45 39303
-rw-rw-r--  1 news  news    748 Mar  2 21:15 39304
...

I must be missing something trivious, but I don't know what.

Thank you for any help,

Olivier


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