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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b
Subject: Cleanup script
Summary: puts all expires etc in one place
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Date: 8 May 89 20:19:11 GMT
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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I used to put a lot of individual expires into the root crontab,
which meant every time I wanted to adjust things I had to mess with
cron.  I wasn't satisfied with the logging of this either.  So I
wrote a general purpose cleanup shell script where I can specify
all the individual expires, trims, logging etc for news.  Perhaps
others may find it useful.  I call it "cleannews":

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#! /bin/sh
# '@(#)cleannews	1.2	05/03/89'

# Perform news cleanup.  This script should be run nightly from the
# root crontab.  The distributed version performs a general news expire
# and trims the log files.  You can add newsgroup-specific expires and
# any other news related stuff you want to run nightly.  Keeping
# everything together in one shell script lets you manage netnews
# flexibly without changing 'crontab' all the time.  Cleannews also
# writes a logfile (including error codes).  This logfile is not
# itself cleaned automatically but it should only grow by a few
# lines per night.  To turn it off, set Logfile=/dev/null.
#
# This version was tested with the news 2.11 software but should
# work most anywhere.

# set -vx 				# uncomment for debugging

# Customize these values (if necessary) for your site.

Date=/bin/date
Expire=/usr/lib/news/expire
Trimlib=/usr/lib/news/trimlib
Logfile=/usr/lib/news/cleannews.log

# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
#
# Add copies of the following block for any specific
# expires you want to run besides the general expire.
#
# Customize the following values for each expire:

KEEPNEWS=14
KEEPHIST=30
 VERBOSE=0
  OUTPUT="> /dev/null"
  GROUPS=all

if $Expire -e $KEEPNEWS -E $KEEPHIST -v $VERBOSE -n $GROUPS $OUTPUT
then RC=;
else RC="?? exit code $? ??" ;
fi

$Date "+%D %T  expire $GROUPS $RC" >> $Logfile

# End of expire block
#
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #

# This is the news logfile trimmer from the news 2.11 'misc' directory

if $Trimlib
then RC=;
else RC="?? exit code $? ??" ;
fi

$Date "+%D %T  trimlib $RC" >> $Logfile
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Tom Neff				UUCP:     ...!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
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