Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!ihnp4!homxb!mhuxt!tab
From: tab@mhuxt.UUCP (Tracey A. Baker)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How do you fix the spool directory after it fills up?
Keywords: /usr/spool/news out of space
Message-ID: <2315@mhuxt.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 05:55:40 GMT
References: <144@amcad.UUCP> <300@sp7040.UUCP>
Reply-To: tab@mhuxt.UUCP (Tracey A. Baker)
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Organization: AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J.
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In article <300@sp7040.UUCP> jsp@sp7040.UUCP writes:
>	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.

  My site used to do this for the "big" groups automatically, but I changed
things so that expire is run with a shorter expiration time on the big groups.
I did this because I thought it said in the nes software installation guide
that rm'ing files in /usr/spool/news without getting rid of them in the history
file could confuse other parts of news.  Then again, I have had trouble before
interpreting the docs.  Can anyone clear this up for me?

  Also, I asked this before and got no response (possibly due to broken news
feeds):  can anyone explain the "L" flag in the /usr/lib/news/sys file?  I
understand that a plain L will just send articles posted on that system, but
the L# has me confused.  Does "L2" mean only this site (literal interpretation
of the installation guide), this site + previous site (that makes sense to me),
or this site + previous two sites (don't remember exactly what gave me this
idea)?  Help?  Someone?  Please?

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