Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 183

EXPffiE(8)
MAINTENANCE COMMANDS
EXPIRE(8)
NAME
expire - remove outdated news articles
SYNOPSIS
/ua .. /loeal/Db/newa/explre (
-D
newBgroupB) ( -I) [ -I ) [ -v[/evel ) )
[-e
da1/B) [
-a)
[ -r
I (
-h
I
DESCRIPTION
Expire is normally started up by cron(8) every night to remove all expired news. II no news-
groups are specified, the default is to expire aU.
Articles whose specified expiration date has already passed are considered expirable.
OPTIONS
-D
newBgroupB
List of newsgroups to expire. Elements in the list of newsgroups must be separated by
commas and/or spaces.
-a archive articles in /usr/spool/oldnews. Articles are unlinked in the absence of the -a
option.
-v[level)
be more verbose. A verbosity level (default 1) can follow the
-v
flag, as in
-va
for even
more output. This is useful if articles aren't being expired and you want to know why.
-e da1/B
-I
give the number of days to use for a default expiration date. II not given, an installation
dependent default (often 2 weeks) is used. Note that you must use a space between -e
and da1/B.
-I ignore any expiration date explicitly given on articles. This can be used when disk space
is really tight. -I always ignores expiration dates, while -I only ignores the date if ignor-
ing it would expire the article sooner. WARNING: If you have articles archived, by giv-
ing them expiration dates far into the future, these options might remove these files any-
way.
-I"
rebuild the history file without removing any files. In the prOCe!8, expire formats the
dbm(3) format files associated with the history file.
-h expire articles without using the history file. Both the
-I"
and -h flags use the active file
for newsgroup information rather than the history file.
SEE ALSO
checknews(I), inews(I), readnews(I), recnews(8), sendnews(8), uurec(8)
28 Last change: 13 March 1984
Sun Release 1.1