Expireover
expires entries from the news overview database.
It reads a list of newsgroup list (
<pathdb in inn.conf>/active).
(A file name of ``-'' may be used to specify the standard input.)
It then removes any mention of those articles from the appropriate overview
database.
If ``groupbaseexpiry'' in
inn.conf
is ``true'',
expireover
also expires articles. If it's ``false'', ``-e'', ``-k'',
``-N'', ``-p'', ``-q'', ``-w'' and ``-z''
flags are ignored.
OPTIONS
-e
If the ``-e'' flag is used, then as soon as the first cross posting
of the article expires, all overview entries relevant to the article are
removed.
Note that you cannot use both ``-e'' and ``-k'' flag at the
same time.
-f
When the ``-f'' flag is used, then
expireover
will use it as newsgroup list instead of
<pathdb in inn.conf>/active
file. A name of ``-'' is taken to mean the standard input.
-k
When the ``-f'' flag is used, then
articles are removed when they have been
expired from all the groups they appear in.
Note that you cannot use both ``-e'' and ``-k'' flag at the
same time.
-N
If the storing method has self expire functionality, then the control file
is ignored for that article by default.
If the ``-N'' flag is used,
expireover
purges articles and overview entries with the control file.
-p
Expireover
makes its decisions on the time the article arrived by default.
This means articles are often kept a little longer than with other
expiration programs that base their decisions on the article's posting
date.
To use the article's posting date, use the ``-p'' flag.
-q
Expireover
normally prints statistics at the end of process.
To suppress this action, use the ``-q'' flag.
-s
Expireover
normally checks the existense of articles only if ``EXPENSIVESTAT'' of
its storage method is set to ``FALSE''. To do stat all articles regardless
of ``EXPENSIVESTAT'', use the ``-s'' flag. See
storage.conf(5)
for ``EXPENSIVESTAT''.
-w
Use the ``-w'' flag to ``warp'' time so that
expireover
thinks it is running at some time other then the current time.
The value should be a signed floating point number of the number of days
to use as the offset.
-z
If the ``-z'' flag is used, then articles are not removed, but their
toknes are appended to the specified
file.
See the description of
delayrm
in
news.daily(8).
-Z
If the ``-Z'' flag is used, then the lowest article numbers for
each newsgroup after expiry are written to the specified
lofile
with newsgroup name.
This flag can be used when doing ``ctlinnd lomark lofile''.
