expirerm - Remove articles that have been expired
expirerm file
expirerm is a script that removes a list of files. The specified
file lists the files to be removed. It is usually created by
expire
-z. This file is sorted, and then fed into a pipeline responsible for
doing the removal, normally
fastrm. (You may want to edit
expirerm to change the flags passed to
fastrm.)
If there seemed to be a problem removing the files, then a mail is sent to the
news administrator. If there were no problems, then
file is renamed to
pathlog/expire.list where it is kept (for safety) until the next time
expiration is done.
Written by Landon Curt Noll <
[email protected]> and Rich $alz
<
[email protected]>. Converted to POD by Julien Elie.
expire(8),
fastrm(1),
newslog(5).