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EXPIREOVER(8)					    EXPIREOVER(8)

NAME
       expireover   -  Expire  entries	from  the  news	 overview
       database

SYNOPSIS
       expireover [ -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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EXPIREOVER(8)					    EXPIREOVER(8)

	      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 ALSO
       expire(8), expireindex(8), inn.conf(5), overview.fmt(5).

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