expiring news by raising low water mark ...
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Mon Apr 10 09:11:55 UTC 2000
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy at hub.org> writes:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:
>> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy at hub.org> wrote;
>> } I realize that this may be an odd request, but at the university I work
>> } at, the profs use the news server for 'course discussions' and want to
>> } periodically purge news pre-date X ... I'm figuring that the easiest way
>> } to do that would be to mark all articles in a group less then 'article #Y'
>> } as expired ...
>> } Is there any way I can do this?
We've been doing this via just editing expire.ctl, waiting a day, and then
changing it back for longer than I've been working here. It's a minor
pain, but it works, and it's easy to explain to new people. We only have
to do it once a quarter.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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