[leafnode-list] Re: texpire deleting more articles than it should

[Matthias Andree]

Am 09.09.2011 10:43, schrieb John Wiegley:
> I use leafnode both to read groups, and to archive groups (and it's awesome
> for doing both).  I even use local groups to archive mailing list traffic so
> that it doesn't fill up my IMAP box.
> 
> However, the other day I ran texpire and saw this:
> 
>    texpire 2.0.0.alpha20110815a.luascript: check mtime only
>    wg21.c++.news: 8 articles deleted, 170 kept
>    wg21.c++.lib: 1839 articles deleted, 16232 kept
>    wg21.c++.ext: 1608 articles deleted, 4314 kept
>    wg21.c++.date-lib: 0 articles deleted, 202 kept
>    wg21.c++.core: 412 articles deleted, 9203 kept
>    wg21.c++.compat: 11 articles deleted, 411 kept
>    wg21.c++.all: 3 articles deleted, 922 kept
> 
> But I have these relevant settings in my config:
> 
>    expire = 36500
>    groupexpire = wg21.* -1
> 
> As far as I understand, texpire should just be leaving these groups alone,
> right?
> 
> Luckily I had the groups in question under Git, so I resurrected the articles
> easily, but I had to use this invocation to trick texpire into rebuilding my
> message.id without deleting those articles again:
> 
>    texpire -vvv -f -r comp.std.c++
> 
> What can I do to fully stop texpire from deleting anything, ever, except for
> specific groups that I want to expire?

Hi John,

sorry for that.  Are there logs beyond what you've quoted?

Are you running leafnode on a 64-bit computer?  Please show me the
output of "leafnode-version -v".

If it's running in a 32 bits environment (where time_t and/or long are
32 bits wide), expire is possibly limited to some 24,000 days.  Looking
at the leafnode-1 code, I may need to forward port a relevant safety
check (and the lack of such features is another reason why leafnode-2 is
dubbed "alpha").

I may later need to ask you to backup your news spool, and re-create the
error condition while running with massive debug logging enabled. Not
sure yet, I'll keep you posted.

Best regards,
Matthias