Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cnews wish
Message-ID: <12718@looking.on.ca>
Date: 13 Sep 89 07:46:07 GMT
References: <1401@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: information, original

In article <1401@esquire.UUCP> yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
>
>    Cnews automatically manages the disk space
>    used by news articles in a FIFO fashion.
>    Thus, you don't have to keep tweaking expire
>    times to make sure don't run out of space;
>    articles will stay around as long as
>    possible, being deleted automatically only
>    as space is needed for new articles. 

C news doesn't do that.  I suggested it to them a while ago but they
were already in the "Please, NO MORE FEATURES!" mode.

In fact, when I had smaller disk packs I wrote a very simple expire
program that was space based.  Instead of keep the last N days of articles,
you said keep the last N *bytes* of articles.  Much nicer.  It could be tuned
per group, too.  It also ran when space got low.  But it just removed files.
It did not update the database.  It left that to regular expire every
night or couple of days, as you wish.   It's short, I will post it if need
be.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473