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- expire <subcommand>
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- The 'expire' command is used to invoke the process which deletes
- old BBS messages. The mailboxes or newsgroups to be expired, and the
- age (in days) after which a message may be deleted, are specified in
- the Expirefile (defaults to /spool/expire.dat).
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- expire [now | interval]
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- Begin the expire process immediately, if <now> is specified, or
- every <interval> hours in the future (but no immediate expire is
- done). If no arguments are provided, the current expire interval
- is displayed.
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- Example: To run expire at 04:30 each morning, place these
- commands into your autoexec.nos file
- at 0430 "expire 24"
- at 0431 "expire now"
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- Format of Expirefile:
-
- #comment line
- mbox_name number_of_days_to_retain_messages
- mbox_path number_of_days_to_retain_messages
- !news.group.name number_of_days_to_retain_articles
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- If the number of days is omitted, 21 is used. Also, if newsgroups
- are specified, the associated History file is expired as well, but
- the number of days used is the maximum of all the days provided for
- newsgroups in the Expirefile.
-
- Example: allusa 7
- amsat 10
- !swap 10
- !rec.radio 7
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- See Also: oldbid
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