texpire(8)

NAME
texpire - delete old news article threads

SYNOPSIS
texpire

DESCRIPTION
Leafnode is a USENET package intended for small sites, where there are few users and little disk space, but where a large number of groups is desired.

The design of leafnode is intended to repair any problems itself, to detect what newsgroups the users read, and to require no manual manual maitenance.

Texpire is the program which deletes old articles from the local news spool.

FILES
See leafnode(8) for the list of files affected.

NOTES
Texpire sets its real and effective uid to "news" (if it can), because almost all of the problems I have had with leafnode are due to files which aren't writable for user "news".

BUGS
Texpire may not delete an article as soon it should in certain circumstances; eventually it will.

If a group is removed by hand from the /usr/lib/leafnode/groupinfo file but the group's articles not deleted, texpire may never delete these articles.

Texpire ignores "Expires" headers.

AUTHOR AND LICENCE
Written by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> and copyright 1995 Troll Tech AS, Postboks 6133 Etterstad, 0602 Oslo, Norway, fax +47 22646949.

Use, modification and distribution is allowed without limitation, warranty, or liability of any kind.

SEE ALSO
tcpd(8), hosts.allow(5), leafnode(8), fetchnews(8), RFC 977