At 11:49 PM 9/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
>"NetWin Support Auckland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Although there is plenty of room and expire.conf is set to retain,
> >>nevertheless some postings I wish had not expired did. Can I get them
> back?
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Once a message has been expired it has been removed from the spool. The only
> >way to get it back is to refeed the item in to the server.
> >
> >Are you sure the messages are being expired?
>
>Now I am.
>
> >Another possibility is corruption of the indexes, which can be repaied. Try
> >using
> > tellnews rebuild_index
> >and see if the messages re-appear.
> >
> >- Roydon L.
>Thanks. After rebuild_index, some reappeared, some are gone. tellnews
>diskUSE (not SPACE <Grin>) comp.os.linux.hardware said 0 before.
>(note: I did some stupid things to try to stop unwanted groups from
>downloading, this expire problem is probably my fault).
>
>
>Is this normal? A line from my /usr/local/dnews/status.log (it is what
>made me check):
> Pile 1, 0.0/1.0% 24MB, days=366 *
>whereas Pile 2 says:
> Pile 2, 16.7/89.0% 9290Mb, days=366 BLAHBLAH
>
>Can 24Mb REALLY be zero.zero percent of 1 percent of 50GB?!! I think some
>file in ~/work got hammered (by me).
Yes, 24mb = .00048 of 50gb = .048% which is just under 0.1%
I recommend you don't use 'days' limits if you can possibly use 'use' limits
instead in expire.conf, the use limits are much more 'predicatable' in
nature :-)
ChrisP.
