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From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Expire Problem
Message-ID: <2059@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 88 04:43:18 GMT
References: <816@grc.UUCP>
Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>,2G218,x0705,)
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs 46133, Holmdel, NJ
Lines: 21
Keywords: uuhosts, comp.mail.maps

In article <816@grc.UUCP> don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz) writes:
:Second problem...the maps!  I do not have enough room on my machine
:to keep the maps as articles.  We use uuhosts and pathalias to update
: ... I cannot seem to expire these maps at all before the expiration date.

The nicer way is to occasionally run "expire -I -e3 -n comp.mail.maps"
(-e3 says 3 days, -I says ignore the Expires: header lines).

The crude but adequate way is to
	find $SPOOLDIR/comp/mail/maps -type f -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} \;

The crude method doesn't update your history files, which seldom matters.
Note that the nicer way will move history to ohistory, trashing any
previous ohistory.  So if you need to use your ohistory files, either
run this expire and your regular one on separate days, or hack a shell
script to save ohistory in between.
-- 
#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
# So we got out our parsers and debuggers and lexical analyzers and various 
# implements of destruction and went off to clean up the tty driver...