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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Supersedes: filling my disk (not running news 2.11)
Message-ID: <107@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 87 17:12:54 GMT
References: <3727@hoptoad.uucp> <1822@decuac.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Organization: Luck Dragons, Etc., Riverwoods, IL
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Frederick M. Avolio (avolio@decuac.dec.com) writes:
> I am not sure what the problem is.  You needn't trash the maps.  Just 
> expire them early...
> 	expire -i -e2 -n comp.mail.maps

Perhaps an even simpler method would be something along the lines of:
	find /usr/spool/news/comp/mail/maps -mtime +2 -type f -print |
	xargs rm -f

Yes, I know that "xargs" is not available on every system.  There are
similar things that can be done without it, though.  (It's really just
an efficiency hack.)

Anyone who is not a leaf node should make sure that the map articles
don't get removed until the sites they feed have had a reasonable chance
to get them.  Maybe something like the following script would work.  I
haven't tested it, as I don't currently have a problem with keeping the
map articles around.  You should test it completely before enabling the
"rm" command.  Note:  If you are running ihave/sendme with another
site, then this will almost certainly not work.  You'll have to do something
much more clever, like grepping out Message-Ids and comparing them with
the contents of the .ihave files.  Even that won't do it, though, as
the "ihave" message may have been sent and the "sendme" not yet received.
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	SPOOLDIR=/usr/spool/news
	BATCHDIR=/usr/spool/batch

	# Get pathnames of the map articles.
	find $SPOOLDIR/comp/mail/maps -type f -print | sort > /tmp/arts.$$

	# cat all the outgoing batch files together sort out the map articles
	cat $BATCHDIR/* 2>/dev/null |
		grep 'comp/mail/maps' |
		sort >/tmp/outg.$$

	# See if any articles have already been batched and queued.
	uniq -d /tmp/arts.$$ /tmp/outg.$$ >/tmp/del.$$

	# If there are any, then delete them
	if test -s /tmp/del.$$
	then
	#	rm -f `cat /tmp/del.$$`	# un-comment when testing done
		cat /tmp/del.$$		# this line for testing or logging
	else				# else clause for testing or logging
		echo "No map articles to be deleted."
	fi

	# clean up
	# un-comment rm line when testing done
	#rm -f /tmp/arts.$$ /tmp/outg.$$ /tmp/del.$$
	exit 0
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Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
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