nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Prime Minister) (12/01/88)
On seeing David Taylor's pexpire, I finally got the impetus to write an expire command which does not need multiple runs if you want to vary expire times for different newsgroups. Work on the new expire command, nexpire, was started about three weeks ago, and it is now stable enough for me to request beta sites for testing. nexpire is meant to be run once, it will peruse the history file to determine which articles stay and which go. In memory, it keeps a table of newsgroups and expiration times. The expiration times are generated by pexpire, as modified by Mike Pearce. In news.software.b are two articles giving a bit more detail on the workings of the commands. We are looking for a few sites to test these commands on different configurations. It currently works on a 3B2-600 running System V, and it compiles and appears to run cleanly on a VAX running BSD 4.3. (The test issued the commands, but did not invoke them.) If you wish to be a beta site, please drop me a line and I will mail you a copy of the package.
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (12/02/88)
In article <13516@terminus.UUCP> nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Prime Minister) writes: >On seeing David Taylor's pexpire, I finally got the impetus to write >an expire command which does not need multiple runs if you want to >vary expire times for different newsgroups... Uh, might I point out that C News expire, released over a year ago, already does this? -- SunOSish, adj: requiring | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 32-bit bug numbers. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
tim@Data-IO.COM (The Daemon's Slave) (12/03/88)
In article <1988Dec1.175612.13244@utzoo.uucp> Henry Spencer writes: => In article <13516@terminus.UUCP> nyssa@terminus.UUCP writes: => >On seeing David Taylor's pexpire, I finally got the impetus to write => >an expire command which does not need multiple runs if you want to => >vary expire times for different newsgroups... => => Uh, might I point out that C News expire, released over a year ago, already => does this? There were also some patches to expire sent out a couple of years ago (or more) that allowed expiration of different newsgroups at different times. Sorry, I don't remeber who sent them out. As the new releases of news came out I just kept porting the patches up to the current version so I've had this feature for over two years now. -- <tim@Data-IO.COM> ..uunet Tim Rosmus (Sys Admin) ..sun!fluke----------\ | Data I/O Corporation ..uw-beaver------------!tikal!pilchuck!tim 10525 Willows Road N.E. ..decvax!microsoft---/ Redmond, WA (206)881-6444
tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) (12/03/88)
>In article <1988Dec1.175612.13244@utzoo.uucp> Henry Spencer writes: > Uh, might I point out that C News expire, released over a year ago, already > does this? Maybe I'm a bit confused, but I thought C News wasn't released yet. Did I miss it? Where can I get the C News expire? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Theodore Ts'o mit-eddie!mit-athena!tytso 3 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 tytso@athena.mit.edu If it's for real, it isn't!
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (12/04/88)
In article <8289@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes: >Maybe I'm a bit confused, but I thought C News wasn't released yet. >Did I miss it? Where can I get the C News expire? The alpha release of C News, which went out a year or so ago, was kind of raw in spots -- notably, the documentation stank -- but was usable. A definitive release is coming Real Soon Now. (Groan.) -- SunOSish, adj: requiring | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 32-bit bug numbers. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu