NAME¶
expirerm - remove articles that have been expired.
SYNOPSIS¶
expirerm file
DESCRIPTION¶
Expirerm is a script that removes a list of files. The specified
file lists the files. It is sorted, and then fed into a pipeline
responsible for doing the removal, normally
fastrm(8). If there seemed
to be a problem removing the files, then mail is sent to the news
administrator. If there were no problems, then
file is renamed to
/var/log/news/expire.list where it is kept (for safety) until the next
day's expiration.
HISTORY¶
Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz
<rsalz@uunet.uu.net>
SEE ALSO¶
expire(8),
fastrm(8)