From: Giles D Malet (gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca)
Date: 07/20/92


From: gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca (Giles D Malet)
Subject: Re: C-News and gcc 2.2.2
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 02:15:06 GMT

In article <1992Jul17.034950.17061@nwnexus.WA.COM>
        vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:

>further testing revealed to me that although expire appears to work
>(it DOES expire the right stuff), it doesn't update the active file.

But it is not meant to ! If you wander around a bit, you will find
`upact' (a shell script) or `updatemin' (compiled c prog) in
/usr/lib/newsbin/expire. Kick one of these off via cron, and it will
update the `lowest article number' field in `active'.
updatemin is much faster.

`relaynews' updates the `highest article number' field....

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