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From: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Auto-expiration of news
Message-ID: <1066@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 88 23:43:21 GMT
Sender: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Penn State University Engineering Computer Lab
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Does anyone have a good way to expire news automatically when the news
partition gets full?  We only have a 25 meg partition for news, and it
often manages to fill up on weekends, and it's a big pain to come in
to find a console log 5 inches thick with logs of /usr/spool/news: write
failed, filesystem full.

We're using nntp to receive articles from psuvax1 (main feed), and uucp
to send back to psuvax1 as well as to send to and from hogbbs, a FidoNet
BBS, which doesn't create many incoming messages...

  Bill