From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61885 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Stern Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Total expiry not working -- is clock skew the problem? Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:24:00 -0800 Organization: The Boeing Company Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139333369 818 80.91.229.2 (7 Feb 2006 17:29:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10414@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Feb 07 18:29:23 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 1F6WeY-0001Gf-90 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:29:22 +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 1F6WeN-00055Y-00; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:29:11 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1F6Wbn-00055Q-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:26:31 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F6Wbj-00037X-Gf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:26:31 -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 1F6Wbg-00046C-00 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:26:24 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F6Wau-0000Qx-2D for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:25:36 +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 18:25:36 +0100 Original-Received: from dodecatheon by orca.drizzle.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:25:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 49 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:v1CP7rpITkP97kPJWNZlbQcvoPg= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61885 Archived-At: One more note -- if I set expiry-wait to 0.0 on a topic, that works perfectly. It is only non-zero values that do not work. -- Ted On 7 Feb 2006 at 08:28 UTC-0800, Ted Stern wrote: > 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