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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Expire problems
Message-ID: <3360@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 12:38:12 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.223930.19922@potomac.ads.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Apr22.223930.19922@potomac.ads.com> awolf@potomac.ads.com (Andy Wolf) writes:
| I am having trouble with expire.  I have cut back severly on the # of
| days that I keep news (in half in most cases), e.g. comp and rec are only
| 4 days now.  Yet I am still running out of disk space.

  I've heard that song before. No matter what you do with expire, every
one in a while you need find to blow away old files. Try this:

	MAXDAYS=14	# max days under any conditions
	NEWS=/usr/spool/news
	find $NEWS -type f -ctime +$MAXDAYS -print | xargs rm

I bet it will cure your problem, set MAXDAYS as needed, run weekly from cron.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"