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From: cl@datlog.co.uk (Charles Lambert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Shorter News Logs (was: expire finds "unparsable date"...)
Summary: Just trash 'em
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Date: 21 Nov 88 15:10:12 GMT
References: <144@tree.UUCP>
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In article <144@tree.UUCP> stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes:
>Why the hell are the news "log" files so huge?...
>Can these files be blocked or restricted in size via some news
>switch?

I only keep two days-worth of logs.  My news crontab moves today's *log to
OLD*log every night - no problems.  Also I run "expire" without the -v flag.


Charlie