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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Inews vs. df
Message-ID: <2910@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 12:12:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 29 12:12:55 1986
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References: <2400@phri.UUCP> <1299@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corporation R&D, Santa Monica
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In article <1299@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
> Much simpler, and with few harmful side-effects, is
>	find /usr/spool/news/net -mtime +15 -type f -exec rm {} ';'
> with whatever modifications for directory name and expiry time you like.
>
> The only significant side-effect is that articles with explicit
> long expiry dates will be lost anyway. No big deal, in my opinion.
> A less-significant effect is that, under certain circumstances,
> rn will give you "Skipping unavailable article" messages due to
> the active file being out of sync with the real world.

One more effect:

If the mininum article number is not updated in the active file, be prepared
for .newsrc lines longer than 1024 bytes.  Rn doesn't mind this, but if
you go back to readnews/vnews you could have problems.

Larry Wall
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