texpire(8)

NAME
texpire - delete old news articles

SYNOPSIS
texpire [-v] ... [-f]

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 maintenance.

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

Archive feature: If a groupexpire parameter is set to -1 for a particular group (or pattern), texpire will skip this (these) groups.

OPTIONS

-v  Be verbose. A maximum of four -v can be used (the more v, the more verbose). Don't expect all the output to make sense.

-f  Force expire. Expire will be made regardless of the access time of the file. Especially useful if you regularly backup your news spool or do other things to it where you open files in there.

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, after making or restoring (from) a backup; eventually it will.

Texpire ignores "Expires" headers.

Texpire is unable to delete articles in groups which have non-consecutive numbers with huge gaps.

Texpire does not delete thread-based, but is only looking at individual articles, although the leafnode documentation of previous versions claimed otherwise.

Texpire only removes the innermost empty directory when all articles expire from a group. On the next run, it will remove the parent, which then is empty again, so eventually, empty directories will be deleted after some texpire runs.

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

Modified by Cornelius Krasel <krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de>. Copyright of the modifications 1997-1999. Modified by Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> and Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>. Copyright of the modifications 2002.

The archive feature was contributed by Andreas Meininger <a.meininger@gmx.net>.

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