texpire(8)

1texpire(8)                  System Manager's Manual                 texpire(8)
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NAME

6       texpire - delete old news articles and repair leafnode news spool
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SYNOPSIS

10       texpire [-v[...]] [-q] [-f] [-h] [-r]
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DESCRIPTION

14       Leafnode  is a USENET package intended for small sites, where there are
15       few users and little disk space, but where a large number of groups  is
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18       Texpire  is  the program which deletes old articles from the local news
19       spool and repairs most problems of the news spool. It can restore  bro‐
20       ken  hard  links,  re-sort  message.id links into the right directories
21       (necessary when the spool has been  moved  to  a  different  path)  and
22       update overview data. It can not repair loss of @spooldir@/news/group/*
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25       Archive feature: If a groupexpire parameter is set to -1 for a particu‐
26       lar group (or pattern), texpire will skip this (these) groups.
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OPTIONS

30       -v     Be  verbose.   A maximum of four -v can be used (the more v, the
31              more verbose).  Don't expect all the output to make sense.  Can‐
32              cels preceding -q options.
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34       -f     Force  expire. Expire will be made regardless of the access time
35              of the file.  Especially useful if  you  regularly  backup  your
36              news  spool  or  do  other  things to it where you open files in
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39       -q     Quiet. Print no messages unless problems occur. Cancels  preced‐
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42       -r     Repair (since v1.9.54). Runs a more thorough yet slower check to
43              detect broken hard links between articles and message.id files.
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45       -h     Help. Print short usage message and exit with code 0.
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FILES

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

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

59       Texpire may not delete an article as soon as it should in certain  cir‐
60       cumstances, for instance after backing up or restoring data; eventually
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63       Texpire ignores "Expires" headers.
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65       Texpire is unable to delete articles in groups which have  non-consecu‐
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68       Texpire does not delete thread-based, but is only looking at individual
69       articles, although the  leafnode  documentation  of  previous  versions
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72       Texpire  only  removes  the innermost empty directory when all articles
73       expire from a group. On the next run, it will remove the parent,  which
74       then  is  empty again, so eventually, empty directories will be deleted
75       after some texpire runs.
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ENVIRONMENT

79       LN_LOCK_TIMEOUT
80              This variable is parsed as an unsigned integer value and  deter‐
81              mines  how  many seconds texpire will wait when trying to obtain
82              the lock file from another leafnode program.  0  means  to  wait
83              indefinitely. This variable takes precedence over the configura‐
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AUTHOR

88       Written by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> and copyright 1995 Troll
89       Tech AS, Postboks 6133 Etterstad, 0602 Oslo, Norway, fax +47 22646949.
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91       Modified  by  Cornelius  Krasel  <krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de>.
92       Copyright of the modifications 1997 – 1999.
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94       Modified Ralf Wildenhues  <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>.  Copyright  of  the
95       modifications 2002.
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97       Modified  by Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>. Copyright of the
98       modifications 2002 – 2004.
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100       The   archive   feature   was   contributed   by   Andreas    Meininger
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