EXPIREOVER(8)EXPIREOVER(8)NAMEexpireover - Expire entries from the news overview
database
SYNOPSISexpireover [ -a ] [ -D overviewdir ] [ -f file ] [ -n ] [
-O overview.fmt ] [ -q ] [ -s ] [ -v ] [ -z ] [ file... ]
DESCRIPTION
Expireover expires entries from the news overview
database. It reads a list of pathnames (relative to the
spool directory, <patharticles in inn.conf>, from the
specified files or standard input if none are specified.
(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 you have turned on the storage manager with the 'stor-
ageapi' in inn.conf(5), you need to use expireindex(8) to
expire overview index.
OPTIONS-a The ``-a'' flag reads the spool directory and adds
any missing overview entries. It will create files
if necessary. This can be used to initialize a
database, or to sync up a overview database that
may be lacking articles due to a crash. Overchan
should be running, to ensure that any incoming
articles get included. Using this flag implies the
``-s'' flag; the ``-f'' flag may be used to add
only a subset of the newsgroups.
-D The ``-D'' flag can be used to specify where the
databases are stored. The default directory is
<pathoverview in inn.conf>.
-f When the ``-s'' flag is used, then expireover will
read the spool directory for all groups mentioned
in the active(5) file. To specify an alternate
file, use the ``-f'' flag; a name of ``-'' is taken
to mean the standard input.
-n To perform no real updates, use the ``-n'' flag.
-O The ``-O'' flag may be used to specify an alternate
location for the overview.fmt(5) file; this is nor-
mally only useful for debugging.
-q Not to tell lock file open failure, use the ``-q''
flag.
-s If the ``-s'' flag is used, then expireover will
read the spool directory for all groups mentioned
in the active(5) file, and remove the overview
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entries of any articles that do not appear in the
directory.
-v To see a list of the entries that would be added or
deleted, use the ``-v'' flag.
-z If the ``-z'' flag is used, then the input is
assumed to be sorted such that all entries for a
newsgroup appear together so that it can be purged
at once. This flag can be useful when used with
the sorted output of expire(8)'s ``-z'' flag.
HISTORY
Written by Rob Robertson <rob@violet.berkeley.edu> and
Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> (with help from Dave
Lawrence <tale@uunet.uu.net>) for InterNetNews. This is
revision 1.1.2.1, dated 1999/06/12.
SEE ALSOexpire(8), expireindex(8), inn.conf(5), overview.fmt(5).
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