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 ``-f'' 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 functional­
              ity, 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

              method is set to ``FALSE''.  To do stat  all  arti­
              cles   regardless  of  ``EXPENSIVESTAT'',  use  the
              ``-s'' flag.  See storage.conf(5) for ``EXPENSIVES­
              TAT''.

       -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 spec­
              ified  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 1.9.2.2, dated 2000/09/05.


SEE ALSO

       active(5), ctlinnd(8).  inn.conf(5), news.daily(8).


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