cluther@supernet.harris-adacom.com (Clay Luther) (07/02/90)
I am wondering if Expire is working properly. After having our feed up for a little over a week, we are already running short of disk space, relatively. We started with 146MB, and are already down to 27MB. Here is our explist: # modified version, no archiving # # hold onto history lines 14 days, nobody gets >90 days /expired/ x 14 - /bounds/ x 0-1-90 - # override later defaults for some groups of note #sci.space.shuttle,rec.birds x 7 - # big non-tech groups held long enough for a long weekend news,sci,rec,talk,soc,misc,alt u 4 - # real noise gets thrown away fast news.groups x 2 - junk x 2 - gnu x 2 - # throw away some technical stuff not worth archiving comp.mail.maps x 4 - # default: 7 days and archive all x 7 - And here is our cron entry for news: 15 * 1-31 * 0-6 su news '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrun' 30 8 1-31 * 1-5 su news '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning off' 00 17 1-31 * 1-5 su news '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrunning on' 40 * 1-31 * 0-6 su news '/usr/lib/newsbin/batch/sendbatches' 59 0 1-31 * 0-6 su news '/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire ' 10 8 1-31 * 0-6 su news '/usr/lib/newsbin/maint/newsdaily' 00 5,13,21 1-31 * 0-6 su news '/usr/lib/newsbin/maint/newswatch' Thanks for any help. (Please do *not* reply to harris-adacom.com domain. Use uucp or gateway.) -- Clay Luther ..uunet!iex!supernet!cluther Usenet Administrator supernet!cluther%iex.uucp@dept.csci.unt.edu Harris Adacom Corp, Dallas, Tx ***** DO NOT REPLY USING harris-adacom.com YET. IT IS AN INFANT DOMAIN. *****
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (07/03/90)
In article <1990Jul1.203051.15428@supernet.harris-adacom.com> cluther@supernet.harris-adacom.com (Clay Luther) writes: >I am wondering if Expire is working properly. After having our feed up >for a little over a week, we are already running short of disk space, >relatively. We started with 146MB, and are already down to 27MB... Sounds like you need to investigate. I don't see anything obviously wrong with the control files you supplied. Try scheduling an expire run for sometime during the day and watching what happens. Also, I trust someone is *reading* the NEWSMASTER mailbox? -- "Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology must be changed." -John K. Ousterhout | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) (07/04/90)
cluther@supernet.harris-adacom.com (Clay Luther) writes: >I am wondering if Expire is working properly. After having our feed up >for a little over a week, we are already running short of disk space, >relatively. We started with 146MB, and are already down to 27MB. After running with cnews for the last month - I've noticed the same thing. After doing some quick checking, I've noticed messages in groups like alt.sys.amiga with expire dates in them 60 days in the future - so I am assuming the problem is related to these types of messages.. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA uucp: iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry -or- larry@nstar Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-3745 / lots of files & free PEP feeds!
stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) (07/06/90)
Perhaps you should change your crontab entries to:
su news -c '/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire -v'
^^^^
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| possible if we look ahead and steer..."root@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (0000-Admin(0000)) (07/07/90)
In article <1990Jul5.193948.13335@caen.engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes: > >Perhaps you should change your crontab entries to: > >su news -c '/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire -v' > ^^^^ That depends upon where the crontab entires are located. I naively put mine in a news crontab and removed all the "su news -c" parts. Should I have placed it in some other crontab say root? I am also getting articles hanging around that should have been cleared out, especialy in junk.
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (07/08/90)
In article <1990Jul6.180532.24641@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> root@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (0000-Admin(0000)) writes: >That depends upon where the crontab entires are located. I naively put mine >in a news crontab and removed all the "su news -c" parts. Should I have placed >it in some other crontab say root? ... With the exception of setnewsids (an auxiliary to relaynews, needed if your system cannot do setuid(geteuid())), nothing in C News needs to run as root. -- "Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology must be changed." -John K. Ousterhout | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry