NAME
expireover - Expire entries from the news overview database
SYNOPSIS
expireover
[
-e
]
[
-f file
]
[
-k
]
[
-N
]
[
-p
]
[
-q
]
[
-s
]
[
-w number
]
[
-z rmfile
]
[
-Z lofile
]
DESCRIPTION
Expireover
expires entries from the news overview database.
It reads a list of newsgroup list (
<pathdb in inn.conf>/active).
(A file name of ``-'' may be used to specify the standard input.)
It then removes any mention of those articles from the appropriate overview
database.
If ``groupbaseexpiry'' in
inn.conf
is ``true'',
expireover
also expires articles. If it's ``false'', ``
-e'', ``
-k'',
``
-N'', ``
-p'', ``
-q'', ``
-w'' and ``
-z''
flags are ignored.
OPTIONS
- -e
-
If the ``-e'' flag is used, then as soon as the first cross posting
of the article expires, all overview entries relevant to the article are
removed.
Note that you cannot use both ``-e'' and ``-k'' flag at the
same time.
- -f
-
When the ``-f'' flag is used, then
expireover
will use it as newsgroup list instead of
<pathdb in inn.conf>/active
file. A name of ``-'' is taken to mean the standard input.
- -k
-
When the ``-k'' flag is used, then
articles are removed when they have been
expired from all the groups they appear in.
Note that you cannot use both ``-e'' and ``-k'' flag at the
same time.
- -N
-
If the storing method has self expire functionality, then the control file
is ignored for that article by default.
If the ``-N'' flag is used,
expireover
purges articles and overview entries with the control file.
- -p
-
Expireover
makes its decisions on the time the article arrived by default.
This means articles are often kept a little longer than with other
expiration programs that base their decisions on the article's posting
date.
To use the article's posting date, use the ``-p'' flag.
- -q
-
Expireover
normally prints statistics at the end of process.
To suppress this action, use the ``-q'' flag.
- -s
-
Expireover
normally checks the existense of articles only if ``EXPENSIVESTAT'' of
its storage method is set to ``FALSE''. To do stat all articles regardless
of ``EXPENSIVESTAT'', use the ``-s'' flag. See
storage.conf(5)
for ``EXPENSIVESTAT''.
- -w
-
Use the ``-w'' flag to ``warp'' time so that
expireover
thinks it is running at some time other then the current time.
The value should be a signed floating point number of the number of days
to use as the offset.
- -z
-
If the ``-z'' flag is used, then articles are not removed, but their
toknes are appended to the specified
file.
See the description of
delayrm
in
news.daily(8).
- -Z
-
If the ``-Z'' flag is used, then the lowest article numbers for
each newsgroup after expiry are written to the specified
lofile
with newsgroup name.
This flag can be used when doing ``ctlinnd lomark lofile''.
HISTORY
Written by Rob Robertson <
rob@violet.berkeley.edu>
and Rich $alz <
rsalz@uunet.uu.net>
(with help from Dave Lawrence <
tale@uunet.uu.net>)
for InterNetNews.
This is revision 1.9.2.3, dated 2002/04/14.
SEE ALSO
active(5),
ctlinnd(8).
inn.conf(5),
news.daily(8).
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- OPTIONS
-
- HISTORY
-
- SEE ALSO
-
