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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How do you get rid of this errlog message?
Message-ID: <5043@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 22:38:46 GMT
References: <964@psuhcx.psu.edu> <291@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <291@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
> From article <964@psuhcx.psu.edu>, by wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (William C. Fenner):
> ] In article <190@placer1.COM> amos@placer1.COM (Kevin Amos) writes:
> ] |Could someone tell me how to get rid of this message in my
> ] |errlog file.
> ] 
> ] I'm not sure what the best way to get rid of this is... maybe go into the
> ] directories themselves and remove the message files, and then rebuild the
> ] history file, or maybe just edit the history file...
> ] 
> ] Anyone have any better suggestions?
> 
> Try the following two lines:
> 1. from the /usr/new/lib/news/news.daily script:
> find /usr/spool/news -mtime +7 -type f -exec rm \{\} \; 2>&1 >/dev/null
> 2. from the /usr/new/lib/news/news.weekly script:
> ./expire -e 7 -r

Gee, there might be some customer dissatisfaction if you expire all
news articles after only 7 days, though systems do vary...

IFF you have a version of news with an ascii history file:

grep '<.*[ \t].*>' ~news/history | \
sed -e 's/.*\t/rm ' -e 's/ / .usr.spool.news./g' -e '/\./\//g' > /tmp/script
  (iterate until you get a good looking rm script..)
sh /tmp/script
expire -r

where \t means you type a tab...

or

find /usr/spool/news/x -exec grep -s '^Message-ID: *<.*[ \t].*>' '{}' ';' \
	-print -exec rm '{}' ';'
expire -r

where x is one of sci/space/shuttle rec/games/hack misc/test and misc/consumers
and \t means type a tab and the -print can be omitted if you're confident.

The above no doubt contain errors and idiocies, but hopefully the
astute news administrator can use either one as a starting point
for purging the offensive articles...

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)