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- oldbid
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- The 'oldbid' command is used to invoke the process which
- deletes old message-id's (or bids) in the Historyfile. The default
- location of Historyfile is /spool/history. Do not confuse this
- file with the NNTP History database, stored in /spool/news/history
- by default!
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- oldbid [interval age_in_days]
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- Begin the oldbid process every <interval> hours, and delete
- those bids which are older than <age_in_days> days. If no
- arguments are provided, the current oldbid interval and age
- are displayed.
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- Example: To expire bids every 24 hours, that are 30 days
- old, use: oldbid 24 30
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