debian man page for texpire

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

NAME
       texpire - delete old news articles and repair leafnode news spool

SYNOPSIS
       texpire [-v[...]] [-q] [-f] [-h] [-r]

DESCRIPTION
       Leafnode  is a USENET package intended for small sites, where there are few users and little disk space, but where a large number of groups
       is desired.

       Texpire is the program which deletes old articles from the local news spool and repairs most problems of the news  spool.  It  can  restore
       broken  hard  links,  re-sort message.id links into the right directories (necessary when the spool has been moved to a different path) and
       update overview data. It can not repair loss of @spooldir@/news/group/* files.

       Archive feature: If a groupexpire parameter is set to -1 for a particular group (or pattern), texpire will skip this (these) groups.

OPTIONS
       -v     Be verbose.  A maximum of four -v can be used (the more v, the more verbose).  Don't expect all the output to  make  sense.  Cancels
	      preceding -q options.

       -f     Force  expire.  Expire  will be made regardless of the access time of the file.  Especially useful if you regularly backup your news
	      spool or do other things to it where you open files in there.

       -q     Quiet. Print no messages unless problems occur. Cancels preceding -v options.

       -r     Repair (since v1.9.54). Runs a more thorough yet slower check to detect broken hard links between articles and message.id files.

       -h     Help. Print short usage message and exit with code 0.

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

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

BUGS
       Texpire	may  not delete an article as soon as it should in certain circumstances, for instance after backing up or restoring data; eventu-
       ally it will.

       Texpire ignores "Expires" headers.

       Texpire is unable to delete articles in groups which have non-consecutive numbers with huge gaps.

       Texpire does not delete thread-based, but is only looking at individual articles, although the leafnode documentation of previous  versions
       claimed otherwise.

       Texpire only removes the innermost empty directory when all articles expire from a group. On the next run, it will remove the parent, which
       then is empty again, so eventually, empty directories will be deleted after some texpire runs.

ENVIRONMENT
       LN_LOCK_TIMEOUT
	      This variable is parsed as an unsigned integer value and determines how many seconds texpire will wait when  trying  to  obtain  the
	      lock file from another leafnode program. 0 means to wait indefinitely. This variable takes precedence over the configuration file.

AUTHOR
       Written	by  Arnt  Gulbrandsen  <agulbra@troll.no>  and	copyright  1995 Troll Tech AS, Postboks 6133 Etterstad, 0602 Oslo, Norway, fax +47
       22646949.

       Modified by Cornelius Krasel <krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de>.  Copyright of the modifications 1997-1999.

       Modified Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>. Copyright of the modifications 2002.

       Modified by Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>. Copyright of the modifications 2002 - 2004.

       The archive feature was contributed by Andreas Meininger <a.meininger@gmx.net>.

SEE ALSO
       tcpd(8), hosts.allow(5), leafnode(8), fetchnews(8), RFC 977.

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