Re: Excessively Large NEWS.DAT File
Chris Szurgot (szurgot@itribe.net)
Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:15:47 -0400
In article <bDIfxM82cm1f085yn@cris.com>, you wrote:
>On Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:30:56 GMT will@spuddy.mew.co.uk (William Boughton) wrote:
>
>>I have had problems with this, i found that if you rmgroup agroup before
>>you expire all articles in it you can't get rid of the articles from
>>the news.dat, i've run rebuild several times but it has no effect on
>>rmgrouped groups that were not expired 1st.
>
>Yes, this has been a problem for a LONG time... I can't remember a version
>of YARN that did not have this problem... I started with YARN 0.63, I
>think...
>
>I am now running 0.85... You must run "expire -o -d999 {newsgroup}" to get
>rid of the articles before you run "rmgroup"... Chin should not release
>another version of YARN until this is fixed...
>
>ARE YOU LISTENING, CHIN...!!!
Well, I suspect that a short term fix could be to have rmgroup actually run
the expire command for that string. The only drawback there would be a not
instantaneous reply from rmgroup.
Chris
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