Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxj!houxm!gregbo 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 Article-I.D.: houxm.1043 Posted: Wed Dec 26 11:35:51 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 03:25:24 EST References: <852@watcgl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 30 > 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. -- Baby tie your hair back in a long white bow ... Meet me in the field, behind the dynamo ... Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo