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NAME

       expireover - Expire entries from the news overview database

SYNOPSIS

       expireover [ -e ] [ -f file ] [ -k ] [ -N ] [ -p ] [ -q ] [ -s ] [ -w number ] [ -z rmfile ] [ -Z lofile ]

DESCRIPTION

       Expireover  expires  entries  from  the news overview database.	It reads a list of newsgroup list ( <pathdb in inn.conf>/active).  (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  ``groupbaseexpiry''  in inn.conf is ``true'', expireover also expires articles.	If it's ``false'', ``-e'', ``-k'', ``-N'',
       ``-p'', ``-q'', ``-w'' and ``-z'' flags are ignored.

OPTIONS

       -e     If the ``-e'' flag is used, then as soon as the first cross posting of the article expires, all overview	entries  relevant  to  the
	      article are removed.  Note that you cannot use both ``-e'' and ``-k'' flag at the same time.

       -f     When  the ``-f'' flag is used, then expireover will use it as newsgroup list instead of <pathdb in inn.conf>/active file.  A name of
	      ``-'' is taken to mean the standard input.

       -k     When the ``-k'' flag is used, then articles are removed when they have been expired from all the groups they appear in.	Note  that
	      you cannot use both ``-e'' and ``-k'' flag at the same time.

       -N     If  the  storing	method has self expire functionality, then the control file is ignored for that article by default.  If the ``-N''
	      flag is used, expireover purges articles and overview entries with the control file.

       -p     Expireover makes its decisions on the time the article arrived by default.  This means articles are often kept a little longer  than
	      with  other expiration programs that base their decisions on the article's posting date.	To use the article's posting date, use the
	      ``-p'' flag.

       -q     Expireover normally prints statistics at the end of process.  To suppress this action, use the ``-q'' flag.

       -s     Expireover normally checks the existense of articles only if ``EXPENSIVESTAT'' of its storage method is set  to  ``FALSE''.   To	do
	      stat all articles regardless of ``EXPENSIVESTAT'', use the ``-s'' flag.  See storage.conf(5) for ``EXPENSIVESTAT''.

       -w     Use  the	``-w''	flag to ``warp'' time so that expireover thinks it is running at some time other then the current time.  The value
	      should be a signed floating point number of the number of days to use as the offset.

       -z     If the ``-z'' flag is used, then articles are not removed, but their toknes are appended to the specified file.  See the description
	      of delayrm in news.daily(8).

       -Z     If the ``-Z'' flag is used, then the lowest article numbers for each newsgroup after expiry are written to the specified lofile with
	      newsgroup name.  This flag can be used when doing ``ctlinnd lomark lofile''.

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 1.9.2.3, dated 2002/04/14.

SEE ALSO

       active(5), ctlinnd(8).  inn.conf(5), news.daily(8).

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