[news.software.b] Shorter News Logs

cl@datlog.co.uk (Charles Lambert) (11/21/88)

In article <144@tree.UUCP> stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes:
>Why the hell are the news "log" files so huge?...
>Can these files be blocked or restricted in size via some news
>switch?

I only keep two days-worth of logs.  My news crontab moves today's *log to
OLD*log every night - no problems.  Also I run "expire" without the -v flag.


Charlie