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- texpire - delete old news article threads
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- LLLLeeeeaaaaffffnnnnooooddddeeee is a USENET package intended for small sites, where
- there are few users and little disk space, but where a large
- number of groups is desired.
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- The design of lllleeeeaaaaffffnnnnooooddddeeee is intended to repair any problems
- itself, to detect what newsgroups the users read, and to
- require no manual manual maitenance.
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- TTTTeeeexxxxppppiiiirrrreeee is the program which deletes old articles from the
- local news spool.
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- OOOOPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNNSSSS
- -_v Be verbose. A maximum of four -_v can be used (the more
- v, the more verbose). Don't expect all the output to
- make sense.
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- -_f Force expire. Expire will be made regardless of the
- access time of the file. Especially useful if you
- regularly backup your news spool or do other things to
- it where you open files in there.
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- See lllleeeeaaaaffffnnnnooooddddeeee(8) for the list of files affected.
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- TTTTeeeexxxxppppiiiirrrreeee is thread-based, not article-based. It deletes a
- thread when no postings in it have been accessed in N days,
- where N is configurable, and the oldest article in the
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- It would be nice if tttteeeexxxxppppiiiirrrreeee could figure out N itself, for
- instance by deleting until X MB space is free, but it is a
- bit hard to find the amount of free disk space portably.
- That policy also implies that news should use whatever disk
- space is left over by other uses, which is IMHO a bad
- policy, because the news service's quality will degrade as
- other uses need more and more space, _w_i_t_h_o_u_t _a_n_y _c_o_n_s_c_i_o_u_s
- _d_e_c_i_s_i_o_n to use less space for news.
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- TTTTeeeexxxxppppiiiirrrreeee sets its real and effective uid to "news" (if it
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- can), because almost all of the problems I have had with
- lllleeeeaaaaffffnnnnooooddddeeee are due to files which aren't writable for user
- "news".
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- TTTTeeeexxxxppppiiiirrrreeee may not delete an article as soon it should in
- certain circumstances; eventually it will.
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- If a group is removed by hand from the
- /_v_a_r/_s_p_o_o_l/_n_e_w_s/_l_e_a_f._n_o_d_e/_g_r_o_u_p_i_n_f_o file but the group's
- articles not deleted, tttteeeexxxxppppiiiirrrreeee may never delete these
- articles.
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- TTTTeeeexxxxppppiiiirrrreeee ignores "Expires" headers.
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- TTTTeeeexxxxppppiiiirrrreeee is unable to delete articles in groups which have
- very different numbers.
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- AAAAUUUUTTTTHHHHOOOORRRR
- Written by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> and copyright
- 1995 Troll Tech AS, Postboks 6133 Etterstad, 0602 Oslo,
- Norway, fax +47 22646949.
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- Modified by Cornelius Krasel <krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-
- wuerzburg.de>. Copyright of the modifications 1997-1999.
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