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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: trn mthreads not expiring...??
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.224852.11991@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4_377B@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca> <Nov.29.11.17.06.1990.11740@turbo.bio.net> <1990Nov30.084418.19632@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 90 22:48:52 GMT

In article <1990Nov30.084418.19632@actrix.gen.nz> paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
>I suspect (but don't know) that the third field is used to keep
>track of the oldest message -- and guess that this should be updated
>by the expire program (doexpire).  Unfortunately, even though we've
>been running C news for over a year, they haven't changed!

As per the documentation -- see expire(8) -- the third field is updated
by a separate program, which you must arrange to run if you need it.

(Actually, running it, or rather the fast version of it which lurks in
the expire source directory but isn't well documented, is probably going
to become part of the default installation, because too many badly-written
programs have come to depend on this ugly kludge.)
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
