Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How long are you keeping news these days?
Message-ID: <3099@phri.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 16:17:25 GMT
References: <3899@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <22409@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In <22409@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes:
> I'd expire the soc, rec, and talk newsgroups in two weeks [...] and I'd let
> the rest of them back out to 30 days expire, but right now that would mean
> running expire twice every night.

	Why not just expire soc/rec/talk on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and
Sunday, and sci/news/comp/whatever on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday?

	For what it's worth, we have:

Filesystem   kbytes    used   avail capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/ra0d     96547   32247   54645    37%    7905   28959    21%   /usr/spool

which has both our news and uucp spool directories, but not /usr/lib/news,
with its 6 Mbytes worth of log and history files.  This is the least full I've
seen it in a long time (due to the January college vacations, no doubt).  We
get everything except for talk and alt, expire everything in 8 days, every
night, and provide 4 full feeds, plus a number of minor ones.  We used to run
with /usr/spoool as part of the /usr file system; it was split out about 6
months ago to its own file system, and depending on how things are after all
the college people come back, we'll probably push our expire back up to 14
days (or more).
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016