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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