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NAME

       texpire - delete old news articles and repair leafnode news spool

SYNOPSIS

       texpire [-v[...]] [-q] [-f] [-h] [-r]

DESCRIPTION

       Leafnode  is  a USENET package intended for small sites, where there are few users and little disk space,
       but where a large number of groups is desired.

       Texpire is the program which deletes old articles from the local news spool and repairs most problems  of
       the  news  spool.  It  can restore broken hard links, re-sort message.id links into the right directories
       (necessary when the spool has been moved to a different path) and update overview data. It can not repair
       loss of @spooldir@/news/group/* files.

       Archive  feature:  If  a  groupexpire parameter is set to -1 for a particular group (or pattern), texpire
       will skip this (these) groups.

OPTIONS

       -v     Be verbose.  A maximum of four -v can be used (the more v, the more verbose).   Don't  expect  all
              the output to make sense. Cancels preceding -q options.

       -f     Force expire. Expire will be made regardless of the access time of the file.  Especially useful if
              you regularly backup your news spool or do other things to it where you open files in there.

       -q     Quiet. Print no messages unless problems occur. Cancels preceding -v options.

       -r     Repair (since v1.9.54). Runs a more thorough yet slower check to detect broken hard links  between
              articles and message.id files.

       -h     Help. Print short usage message and exit with code 0.

FILES

       See leafnode(8) for the list of files affected.

NOTES

       Texpire  sets its real and effective uid to "news" (if it can), because almost all of the problems I have
       had with leafnode are due to files which aren't writable for user "news".

BUGS

       Texpire may not delete an article as soon as it should  in  certain  circumstances,  for  instance  after
       backing up or restoring data; eventually it will.

       Texpire ignores "Expires" headers.

       Texpire is unable to delete articles in groups which have non-consecutive numbers with huge gaps.

       Texpire  does  not delete thread-based, but is only looking at individual articles, although the leafnode
       documentation of previous versions claimed otherwise.

       Texpire only removes the innermost empty directory when all articles expire from a  group.  On  the  next
       run,  it  will  remove  the  parent,  which then is empty again, so eventually, empty directories will be
       deleted after some texpire runs.

ENVIRONMENT

       LN_LOCK_TIMEOUT
              This variable is parsed as an unsigned integer value and determines how many seconds texpire  will
              wait  when  trying  to  obtain  the  lock  file  from  another  leafnode  program. 0 means to wait
              indefinitely. This variable takes precedence over the configuration file.

AUTHOR

       Written by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> and copyright 1995 Troll Tech AS, Postboks 6133 Etterstad,
       0602 Oslo, Norway, fax +47 22646949.

       Modified  by Cornelius Krasel <krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de>.  Copyright of the modifications 1997
       – 1999.

       Modified Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>. Copyright of the modifications 2002.

       Modified by Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>. Copyright of the modifications 2002 – 2004.

       The archive feature was contributed by Andreas Meininger <a.meininger@gmx.net>.

SEE ALSO

       tcpd(8), hosts.allow(5), leafnode(8), fetchnews(8), RFC 977.