dan@lclark.UUCP (Dan Revel) (04/14/88)
My crontab executes a shell script at midnight and it takes 15 hours to expire everything (VAX 750/4.3bsd, load average < 3.00). This just doesn't seem right, does it? The source has an sccs version # 2.47 and is dated 10/23/86 (expire.c). My shell script looks something like this [my edits in []'s]: /usr/lib/news/expire -e 7 -E 28 -I -n alt.aquaria [many newsgroups follow] [ 20 similar lines ] /usr/lib/news/expire -e 14 -E 28 -I -n test Even the last expire takes 26 minutes, any ideas about what's going on, or what I can do to speed things up? Thanks in advance, -- dan@lclark tektronix!reed!lclark!dan "Set the way-back machine Sherman ... " = == := |-) ;^)
zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) (04/16/88)
Your best bet might be to use the cnews expire. It's faster and mroe flexible. Diffs to allow this were posted several times. --Jon -- Jon Zeeff Branch Technology, uunet!umix!b-tech!zeeff zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu