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EXPIREINDEX(8)					   EXPIREINDEX(8)

NAME
       expireindex - Expire entries from the news overview index

SYNOPSIS
       expireindex [ -a ] [ -D overviewdir ] [ -l ] [ -n ] [ -o ]
       [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -z ] [ file...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Expireindex  expires  entries  from  the	  news	 overview
       database	 index.	 It reads a list of newsgroup and article
       number, from the specified files or standard input if none
       are specified.  (A file name of ``-'' may be used to spec-
       ify the standard input.)	 Each line should  consist  of	2
       fields specified by a colon:

		      newsgroupname:articlenumber

       The  first  field  is the name of the newsgroup.	 A period
       ``.'' in the newsgroup name in this format should be  sub-
       stituted by a slash ``/''.  The second field is an article
       number to be expired.  It  then	removes	 any  mention  of
       those  articles	from  the  appropriate	overview database
       index.

       If you have turned off the storage manager with the 'stor-
       ageapi'	in  inn.conf(5), you need to use expireover(8) to
       expire overview.	 News.daily(8) checks to see if	 this  is
       true, and uses appropriate one.

OPTIONS
       -a     If  the  ``-a''  flag  is	 used,	then  expireindex
	      appends overview index which is read from the input
	      file.   The  difference  from  overchan(8)  is that
	      expireindex reads input file  and	 writes	 overview
	      index  at	 once.	 For  this reason, the input file
	      should be sorted.	 Each line should  consist  of	2
	      fields specified by a space:

			   token newsgroupname:articlenumber

	      The  first  field	 is the toke of the article.  The
	      second field should consist of 2 sub-fields  speci-
	      fied  by	a colon.  The first sub-field is the name
	      of the newsgroup.	 The second sub-field is an arti-
	      cle number to be added.  The input file can be cre-
	      ated by makehistory(8) with ``-I'' option.

       -D     The ``-D'' flag can be used to  specify  where  the
	      databases	 are  stored.	The  default directory is
	      <pathoverview in inn.conf>.

       -l     If  the  ``-l''  flag  is	 used,	then  expireindex
	      removes  all old indexes lower than specified arti-
	      cle number which is read from the input file.  Each

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EXPIREINDEX(8)					   EXPIREINDEX(8)

	      line  should  consist  of	 2  fields specified by a
	      space:

			   newsgroupname articlenumber

	      The first field is the name of the newsgroup.   The
	      second field is an article number which is the low-
	      est retained article number. The input file can  be
	      created by expire(8) with ``-Z'' option.

       -n     To perform no real updates, use the ``-n'' flag.

       -o     If  the  ``-o''  flag  is	 used,	then  expireindex
	      ignores all old overview index before appending new
	      index.

	      This  flag should be used together with ``-z'' flag
	      and the input file should be  sorted  by	newsgroup
	      name.

	      This flag is valid if ``-a'' is used.

       -q     Not  to tell lock file open failure, use the ``-q''
	      flag.

       -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
	      ``-a''   flag   or   with	  the  sorted  output  of
	      expire(8)'s ``-z'' flag.

HISTORY
       Written by Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou@nec.co.jp> for  Inter-
       NetNews.	 This is revision 1.1.2.1, dated 1999/06/12.

SEE ALSO
       expire(8),   expireover(8),  inn.conf(5),  makehistory(8),
       news.daily(8), overchan(8).

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