cole@unix.SRI.COM (root) (05/07/88)
Right now my expire script has two separate expire commands, one to archive selected newsgroups and one to just expire the rest of them. As disk space for news gets to be more of a problem, I would like to be a little more selective in expiring newsgroups, keeping some of them just a couple of days and others for longer periods. But I have found that each separate expire command takes several hours to run even if only one group is being expired (and even though I'm not doing -r). I've tried doing something along the lines of expire -e2 thisgroup -E14 thatgroup but it didn't work (I forget whether it expired them both at 2 or 14 days). I'll bet there's some obvious way to do what I want without running lots of time-consuming separate processes. Would somebody care to share it? Thanks - Susan -- - Susan Cole USENET: ...!hplabs!sri-unix!cole ARPA: cole@unix.sri.com