news@oracle.UUCP (USENET Account ) (10/21/85)
I need a little more explanation on expiring news articles. We've been receiving the news now since first of October. I ran expire for the first time early this morning, and from all expectations, expected approx. 50% reduction in my space. It didn't happen. This is, I believe due to the fact that most of our news is still within the 2 week time frame of the default. My questions are thus: 1) Is 2 weeks a good expiration duration? 2) If I use the archive option, will readnews be smart enough to look in /usr/spool/oldnews? 3) Is there an 'archival' scheme, meaning, I'm interested in saving old INTERESTING news in such a fashion that it can be brought back on-line for someone doing research, etc. Is this more hassle than its worth? 4) Is there a 'locking mechanism' so that 'expire' doesn't collide with 'rnews'? If not, what scheme(s) have you found successful? Is a locking scheme required? 5) The installation documentation send something about giving certain articles 'long expiration dates'. How is this done? Thanks in advance for you responses. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Abbajay Senior Technical Staff ORACLE Corporation (415)854-7350 hplabs!oracle!abbajay --------------------------------------------------------------------------------