Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: tuning number of inodes for cnews Message-ID: <1991Mar4.040532.21943@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1991Mar1.230651.4574@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> <1991Mar3.001647.18652@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1991 04:05:32 GMT In article jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes: >...I wonder if >we can get away w/freeing inodes by a brute force rm'ing of cancel msgs from >control. Something like egrep ...|xargs ...|rm ... Would expiration object? In general, the contents of control are pretty uninteresting, so you might want to skip the egrep. That's one group that ought to have a real short expiry time, in case you're not doing that already. As for simply removing things, no problem: history entry present but article missing is the normal state of affairs after a cancellation -- cancel removes the article but it's way too much trouble to delete the history entry -- so expire considers this a normal case, and won't even complain. -- "But this *is* the simplified version | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology for the general public." -S. Harris | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry