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EXPIREOVER(8)


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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