From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 9 09:24:27 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA16501 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 09:24:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from bifrost.novalink.com (root@bifrost.novalink.com [192.233.90.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA16494 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 09:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from foundation.novalink.com ([204.166.232.114]) by bifrost.novalink.com with SMTP id <2763-10>; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 12:24:26 -0800 Message-ID: <32AC0477.5EA0@novalink.com> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 12:22:15 +0000 From: Verdell Hicks Reply-To: verdell@novalink.com Organization: Novalink USA X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: News expiration Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Everyone, Is this line telling me it needs the news server down in order to run? Or that it needs some more command line switches to run while news is still up. I think this is a fairly good indication as to why my news server is filling up and not expiring articles properly. Also will it hurt to run news.daily as root until I can get this problem here solved? expire begin Mon Dec 9 12:11:17 PST 1996: (-v1) Can't reserve server Article lines processed 0 Articles retained 0 Entries expired 0 Files unlinked 0 Old entries dropped 0 Old entries retained 0 expire end Mon Dec 9 12:11:21 PST 1996 Verdell Hicks Novalink USA Systems Administration