brian@alzabo.UUCP (Brian Hilchie) (02/07/89)
First off I would like to apologize if there is a more appropriate newsgroup for this request. I don't yet have a full feed. Due to limited disk space I would like a set of shell scripts to enable the news expire program to behave in a reasonably intelligent manner. They should run once a day, and ideally would do the following: - archive all sources and binaries newsgroups to tape, and maintain an on-line directory so that users will know what's on tape and can request programs that interest them - scan every user's .newsrc file and expire articles in newsgroups that nobody subscribes to after one or two days - check the amount of free disk space, and if it is below X% decrease the expire time for all remaining newsgroups by a day; if it is above X% increase it by a day I would write them myself but my time is limited, and I'm sure something like this must have been done before. Scripts for SCO Xenix 2.3 would be most appreciated, but I can modify those written for other flavours of UNIX. If nobody has such things I will write them (some day) and post them if there is sufficient interest. Thanks... -- Brian Hilchie <> brian@alzabo.uucp <> uunet!mitel!sce!scs!alzabo!brian "I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal."
eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) (02/10/89)
In article <314@alzabo.uucp>, brian@alzabo.UUCP (Brian Hilchie) writes: > First off I would like to apologize if there is a more appropriate > newsgroup for this request. I don't yet have a full feed. Next time, try news.software.b. > - scan every user's .newsrc file and expire articles in newsgroups > that nobody subscribes to after one or two days In TMN-netnews, you can set the `volatile' flag on a group to arrange that any article seen by all subscribing users gets deleted by expire. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) Email: eric@snark.uu.net CompuServe: [72037,2306] Post: 22 S. Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718