Changi NNTP Server 1.0

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Running out of Diskspace

Calling Changi with option -lf causes the server to reject client connections, if free diskspace goes below the specified point.

Most often the only way to recover from this situation is by removing articles from the newsbase. By default Expire will keep the old history while creating a new one. As history files may grow very large (even larger when calling Expire with option -r), you should avoid building a new one. Instead call

expire -Cv [add other parameters usually used on expiration]
which will not change the size of the exisiting history files, nor create new ones, but simply remove outdated articles and mark them canceled in history.pag.

It's also a good idea to have a different Expire configuration file to be used in emergencies.

expire -Cvc emergency.conf
This call instructs Expire to use emergency.conf instead of expire.conf. Use shorter expiration periods in emergency.conf to ensure that enough articles get removed.


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URL: changi/manual/probspace.html
Created: 2 November 1996
Revised: 21 November 1996
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de