Re: news.dat doesn't shrink

From: mfp (mfp@onr.com)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 13:29:27 -0500

In article <199706182254.WAA07722@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net>, you wrote:

>my problem using Yarn/2 0.92 is that my news.dat doesn't shrink.Today it growes to 37

>expire.exe -o -q
>rebuild -s
>
>My configfile tells yarn to keep messages 12 days, max-keep 30 days.

Delete the "rebuild -s" line in your command file. "rebuild -s" resets
all the import dates for all articles in your news.dat to the date you
run "rebuild -s". Therefore, there are no (or very few) *old* articles
to expire, with "expire -o", because you keep resetting the import date
every time you execute your command file.