making "expire" work

[Darren Friedlein]

I know there are better places to post messages of this genre, but I only
get the unix-pc groups right now, so here goes:

I've been trying to "expire" messages (now reaching 2 meg - just unix-pc.*!),
but every time I run expire, no matter what the parameters, I get the message:

expire: Cannot get NEWSGRP gr entry

Several things could be causing this (peculiarities with my news directories
in particular), but I think it's more likely related to a missing file or
something like that.  Can anyone help me?  Reply through mail or
unix-pc.general if it's of general interest.

-Darren

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