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From: david@wilbur.coyote.trw.com (David Hull)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: wanted: expire on demand
Message-ID: <284D7558.3846@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 23:35:51 GMT
Sender: news@deneva.sdd.trw.com
Reply-To: David Hull <david@wilbur.coyote.trw.com>
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
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I know that somebody once wrote a version of expire (or something
that runs on top of expire) which expires articles faster when the
news partition is short on space.

I need something like that.  My news server is an RS/6000 (which I'm
sure you've read about here), and even with default expiry set at 2
days the 167 MB news partition occasionally fills up because of
variations in our news feed.  I've looked in all the usual places for
this expire-on-demand program and I can't find it.  Any pointers would
be greatly appreciated.

-David Hull