Clean out news

Jeffrey M. Vinocur jeff at litech.org
Mon Feb 18 19:13:23 UTC 2002


On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Franco, Ruben wrote:

> 	I am running Redhat 7.2 with INN 2.3.2 Rel. 5.  What is the proper
> way to delete or "clear out" ALL news articles (not just expired) and
> overviews?

Well, you can shutdown INN, clean them out manually, and it should work
fine.

But by far the easiest way is to add

*:A:0:0:0

to the end of expire.ctl and wait until tomorrow.  (The news.daily run
will take care of it, or you can expire manually if you're in a hurry.)


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org



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