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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Expire not expiring news?
Message-ID: <888@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 89 18:33:46 GMT
Reply-To: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA
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Since we are a small site with limited disk space, we have to conserve
all we have.  So to keep enough space, I have news expiring at no more
than three days (seven on sources) from the time it arrives here (-I
option to expire).  In looking for a particular article that I've read,
I went into the news directories and was looking around when I noticed
articles that have been here since as far back as May?!  Very few of
these have an Expire: header and those that do do not have a date in
them.

My current solution was a quickie shell script to remove all those
oldies and run expire to update the logs (as per the manual).  I would
like to know how can I avoid doing this?  I recovered four megabytes
that way and I think that is significant here.  For the record we are
running news 2.11 with all the patches and this is a Motorola Delta
System running System V/68 Release 3.

Any help is appreciated!

-- 
scott barman
{gatech, emory}!dtscp1!scott