From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61883 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Stern Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Total expiry not working -- is clock skew the problem? Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:28:55 -0800 Organization: The Boeing Company Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139329978 17951 80.91.229.2 (7 Feb 2006 16:32:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:32:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10412@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Feb 07 17:32:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F6Vla-0005aE-D3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:32:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1F6VlW-0004ys-00; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:32:30 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1F6Vki-0004ym-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:31:40 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F6Vjj-0002lP-Iu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:31:17 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1F6VjR-0003PZ-00 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:30:21 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F6VjM-00055k-Lc for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:30:19 +0100 Original-Received: from orca.drizzle.com ([216.162.192.15]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:30:16 +0100 Original-Received: from dodecatheon by orca.drizzle.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:30:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: orca.drizzle.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GBYkrIdpSmakP27SlbQF1ZZrgE4= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61883 Archived-At: Hi, I started a new job about 100 days ago and had to reconstitute my entire Gnus setup, almost from scratch. In my old job, I had total expiry turned on and articles expired with no problems. Now I have total expiry turned on in the group parameters for an entire topic, but nothing has expired automatically since day one. For example, here are the group parameters for my 'lists' topic: ;;; Editing the topic parameters for `lists'. ;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing. ((gcc-self . t) (total-expire . t) (expiry-wait . 7.0) (display . 100)) And here are the group parameters for a group under that topic: ;;; Editing the group parameters for `nnfolder:lists.modules'. ;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing. ((timestamp 17384 51314) (to-address . "modules-interest@lists.sourceforge.net") (to-list . "modules-interest@lists.sourceforge.net")) But no joy. I still have the very first article in that group. My current theory is this: my home directory is NFS-mounted from a remote server, and time-synching is a real problem -- none of the clocks match. I get "clock-skew" errors all the time when trying to build packages, for example. Could the clock skew be breaking expiry? I'm due to get a new computer eventually (only 6 months after starting :-/) and it will have space for my home directory. But do I have to wait for an accurate clock before expiry will start working? Ted -- dodecatheon at gmail dot com Frango ut patefaciam -- I break so that I may reveal