Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: How long are you keeping news these days? Message-ID: <8018@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 10 Jan 88 06:52:22 GMT References: <3899@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2323@terminus.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 36 Well, since we're all saying what we doo ... In the CS/MA/STAT depts here we have all our news on one machine. It's on a seperate partition which has a bunch of stuff on it. It's a 140 meg partition which has some of the spooling area for news coming in and out, the /usr/lib/news directory and all of the news articles. Right now it's running at 60 megs with about 60 megs free. (remember, BSD reserves 10%). We get every last possible newsgroup we can get which includes "alt", "inet", "unix-pc", "usrgroup", and "bionet". Plus a couple of distributions of our own making. The expiration is completely standard (i.e. just "expire") and is done every day at 3am. For spooling in/out of the system ... the machine news lives on isn't connected to either bitnet or uucp. The only news transfers it does directly is NNTP. For others I have the batches left in a directory on the news machine, then shell scripts on the bitnet and uucp machines (they're seperate machines) pick up the batches and do the appropriate things to uucp/netcopy them to the neighbor. Occasionally we'll have a situation where either bitnet will be down for awhile or one of our uucp neighbors doesn't call for a long time. In THOSE cases we have space problems ... but in each case the spooling directories are on their own partitions and we don't blow other things up. Now, along about last november I discovered this 20+ meg log file which NNTP had made and I'd forgotten it was there. Erik, your script will run on that large a log file but it takes fooorrreeeevvvveeerrrrr.. :-) -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Winter health warning: Remember, don't eat the yellow snow!