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From: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Administering a News system part time
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 12:00:51 EST
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I been running news on a system with limited disk space for quite awhile.
Some things I have done to automate news maintenance:

1) An expire script is used that keeps expiring news until there is a certain
   amount of space free.  A fixed period like 14 days is not used.

2) Outgoing news is limited to n MB/day.  This prevents some 
   of my neighbors from being swamped when things get backed up.  

3) News is spooled "on the fly".  A daemon process keeps checking the amount of
   news spooled and only spools more when it goes below a certain level.

4) There is a daemon that cuts off incoming uucp transfers when disk space
   falls below a certain level.  News/uucp doesn't seem to handle
   no space very well.

The combination of all these things makes it pretty hassle free.

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Jon Zeeff           		Branch Technology,
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