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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New newgroup suggestion--Re: Permanent Postings
Message-ID: <1043@houxm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 11:35:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 26 11:35:51 1984
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> From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)

> In article <1039@houxm.UUCP> gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes:

>>If you use cron jobs to expire news, you can always have the first few files
>>ignored.

> I don't understand this comment at all.  

Let me clarify.

If you want to have articles that *never* expire, you can use cron to keep them
around.  We do nightly expires of netnews.  The lines in crontab are something
like:

touch /usr/spool/news/net/announce/newusers/* 
cd /usr/spool/news
find . -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;

Before executing these two lines, the desired files which can be kept are just
touched, thereby the find ignores them.  I've seen it posted by Mark Horton
that the find(1) method of expiring news articles is nonstandard, but it seems
to work for us pretty well.  We are pretty much forced to do this, otherwise
/usr tends to run out of space on our machines.
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