Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cavebbs!clear From: clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Steady state news. Message-ID: <1990Dec13.012630.909@cavebbs.gen.nz> Date: 13 Dec 90 01:26:30 GMT References: <1990Dec11.231124.24426@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec12.093657.1488@proa.sv.dg.com> Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ Lines: 37 In article <1990Dec12.093657.1488@proa.sv.dg.com> gary@proa.sv.dg.com (Gary Bridgewater) writes: >I really like this idea! >In article <1990Dec11.231124.24426@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >>We thought about it a bit for C News, and concluded that the policy issues >>are complicated (it's simple if you expire everything at the same time, >>but the interactions with selective expiry get messy) and we didn't feel >>like solving them. > >Granted that adding all this file manipulation is a pain - dealing with >15 Mbytes a day is already a pain and it isn't going to get better. I've used the MS-Dos version of Waffle for around a year, and I've been running an AT&T 3B2 for four months. With some expert help, we've got cnews and trn working just fine. But we keep running out of disk. (Running out of inodes was solved at the first repartitioning cycle!) The MS-Dos Waffle expire gets rid of articles on a numbered, rather than timestamped, basis. You say you want to keep the last 500 articles in rec.pyrotechnics, fine. You're not interested in comp.sys.obscure.4bit then set it to expire at four or five articles. My default is /keep=50 articles. I find that to be an excellent system and haven't come across any problems with it at all. Using cnews, if we get delays connecting to our host then we can get fifteen or twenty megs of compressed news in in one hit. That gets uncompressed and sits there for a couple of days, unless I get desperate and manually cruise through the news directories deleting unwanted files. Why wouldn't a numerical expire work under Unix? Has it been done before and rejected as unworkable? PS: Great software, Henry. I hope they pay you what you're worth... 8-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charlie "The Bear" Lear | clear@cavebbs.gen.nz | Kawasaki Z750GT DoD#0221 The Cave MegaBBS +64 4 643429 V32 | PO Box 2009, Wellington, New Zealand --------------------------------------------------------------------------