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From: jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How do you fix the spool directory after it fills up?
Message-ID: <300@sp7040.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 01:02:04 GMT
References: <144@amcad.UUCP>
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Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City, UT
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Keywords: /usr/spool/news out of space
Summary: expireing files

> We have a very small amount of space allocated for the news spool area
> on our system (25000 blocks).  We get most all the groups except soc and
> sci and we are continually running out of room.
> 
> I recently begin manually expiring the maps since we don't run pathalias
> (our feed does) with expire -I -e1 -n comp.mail.maps.
> 
> Every so often if I'm not keeping a watchful eye on the free space in
> the spool directory, it fills up.
> 
> So -- how do I fix things?
> 1.  How can I expire things to prevent this problem.  I heard someone
>     hacked inews to put articles on another filesystem when the spool
>     filesystem filled up.
> 2.  What should I do to clean up /usr/spool/news?

	Try this if it is full,  At Weber State College We only have 40
meg to dedicate to news so I expire articles (all of them, who knows what
a student will want to read) in 2 weeks.  I do however run a cron script
daily that checks the file system to see if it is more than 90% full.
If it does in does the following command:

	find /news/spool/news -mtime +12 -exec rm {} \;

This deletes any files in our news spool directory that are more than 13
days old.  Since I started doing this it has nor over filled yet.  You can run
this command by hand if you want for put it in cron as a fail safe like I did.

				--  Johnnie  --

	Bill the Cat for President

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