[leafnode-list] texpire failing to expire

[Robert Marshall]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Matthias Andree wrote:

> 
> Could you show me the lsmac.pl output for some of the old articles (half
> a dozen is sufficient) and perhaps one corresponding header?
> 

lsmac.pl 21334 21410 21447 21439 21430 21341
2004-05-24 13:30:18Z 2004-05-24 13:30:18Z 2004-05-24 13:30:18Z   2     2710 21334
2004-05-25 17:06:01Z 2004-05-25 17:06:01Z 2004-05-25 17:06:01Z   2     2339 21410
2004-05-26 04:48:57Z 2004-05-26 04:48:57Z 2004-05-26 04:48:57Z   2     2363 21447
2004-05-26 04:48:56Z 2004-05-26 04:48:56Z 2004-05-26 04:48:56Z   2     2935 21439
2004-05-26 04:48:54Z 2004-05-26 04:48:54Z 2004-05-26 04:48:54Z   2     1936 21430
2004-05-24 13:30:20Z 2004-05-24 13:30:20Z 2004-05-24 13:30:20Z   2     2644 21341

[root at jailhouse computers]# head -20 21341
Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntp.abs.net!rcn!feed3.news.rcn.net!not-for-mail
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: xxxxxxxxx at aol.com
Subject: Re: Blinkenlights?
Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc.
References: <40AFF210.F221298 at sonnic.net> <CsKdndM71vanaS3dRVn-gw at mpowercom.net> <44e2b05phn607vjaqfofg05n5ps16cf2n5 at 4ax.com> <c8rrl0$76601$1 at hades.csu.net>
X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4
Date: Mon, 24 May 04 11:19:16 GMT
Lines: 45
Message-ID: <40b1e8ec$0$3160$61fed72c at news.rcn.com>
X-Trace: DXC=hTO;^[F_7CQoiIeoEZ=P\T0R]m=BkYWIW:6bU3OT9S9ZGXd1CV3dj3_a;EOPEcF]8T7;KDDXc0n4P
X-Complaints-To: abuse at rcn.com
Xref: jailhouse.chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk alt.folklore.computers:21341
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> And try grepping for the Message-ID of one of these old articles in the
> same group - it should dig up some files which have the Message-ID you
> grepped for in their References: line.

grep 44e2b05phn607vjaqfofg05n5ps16cf2n5 at 4ax.com * | wc -l
     32
grep 44e2b05phn607vjaqfofg05n5ps16cf2n5 at 4ax.com * | grep References | wc -l
     27

not unexpected
> 
> "Should get rid" is dangerous to use with leafnode-2's texpire -- thanks
> to Stefan Wiens' contribution in 2001, it expires threads. This means:
> When a single article in a thread has been read within the expire
> period, the whole thread will be left on disk and it will not expire.
> 

But I thought the -f flag overrode that behaviour? Maybe there needs to be
a -ff to ignore threading or at least the man entry should mention that -f
takes threading into account

> OTOH, it isn't too likely a thread lasts for four months and dominates a
> group for such a long time.
> 

Others have dealt with this!

Robert