scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) (08/11/89)
Since we are a small site with limited disk space, we have to conserve
all we have. So to keep enough space, I have news expiring at no more
than three days (seven on sources) from the time it arrives here (-I
option to expire). In looking for a particular article that I've read,
I went into the news directories and was looking around when I noticed
articles that have been here since as far back as May?! Very few of
these have an Expire: header and those that do do not have a date in
them.
My current solution was a quickie shell script to remove all those
oldies and run expire to update the logs (as per the manual). I would
like to know how can I avoid doing this? I recovered four megabytes
that way and I think that is significant here. For the record we are
running news 2.11 with all the patches and this is a Motorola Delta
System running System V/68 Release 3.
Any help is appreciated!
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scott barman
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