Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!sri-unix!cole
From: cole@unix.SRI.COM (root)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Selective expiration?
Message-ID: <16245@sri-unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 6 May 88 22:59:00 GMT
Reply-To: cole@sri-unix.ARPA
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
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Summary: How do I exire different newsgroups at different periods?

Right now my expire script has two separate expire commands, one to
archive selected newsgroups and one to just expire the rest of them.  As
disk space for news gets to be more of a problem, I would like to be a
little more selective in expiring newsgroups, keeping some of them just
a couple of days and others for longer periods.  But I have found that
each separate expire command takes several hours to run even if only
one group is being expired (and even though I'm not doing -r).

I've tried doing something along the lines of 

	expire -e2 thisgroup -E14 thatgroup

but it didn't work (I forget whether it expired them both at 2 or 14 days).
I'll bet there's some obvious way to do what I want without running lots
of time-consuming separate processes.  Would somebody care to share it?

Thanks - Susan


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- Susan Cole

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