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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: expire finds "unparsable date"--but, where? Where? Goddamnit! WHERE!
Message-ID: <188@twwells.uucp>
Date: 19 Nov 88 18:23:44 GMT
References: <144@tree.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale
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In article <144@tree.UUCP> stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes:
: (2)
: The rmgroup doesn't appear to accept "soc.all" as an argument.  Is there an
: an easier way to delete numerous related newsgroups other than combining
: find with the rmgroup?  FYI, "find" doesn't work in my news directories
: because the directories have been "linked" to other directories.

Grep through your active file for '^soc\.' and cut out the unnecessary
fields. Use the result of that as an argument to rmgroup.

: As a more open question (perhaps one which belongs in another news group)
: what other files -- news related or otherwise -- have this sort of appetite
: for disk space and should be curtailed?  User accounting files I know
: about.

Part of my daily cleanup job summarizes disk usage.  It has a set of
directories it does a `du' on, so that I can make sure none of them
gets out of hand. It then finds all files that have changed and are
not in any of those directories. This was very useful when I first set
up my system: it let me know which files got regularly changed, and
in particular, let me find where all the log files are.
Unfortunately, my system documentations was not terribly useful in
finding out where those files are. But I know now!

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Bill
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