expirerm(8)

expirerm8

Remove articles that have been expired

Usage

expirerm file

Overview

expirerm is a script that removes a list of files. The specified file lists the files to be removed. It is usually created by expire -z. This file is sorted, and then fed into a pipeline responsible for doing the removal, normally fastrm. (You may want to edit expirerm to change the flags passed to fastrm.)

If there seemed to be a problem removing the files, then a mail is sent to the news administrator. If there were no problems, then file is renamed to pathlog/expire.list where it is kept (for safety) until the next time expiration is done.

Releases

17 releases since Debian 1.3 (Bo); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 1.3–2.1
  2. 2.2–5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

History

Written by Landon Curt Noll <[email protected]> and Rich $alz <[email protected]>. Converted to POD by Julien Elie.

From inn 2.7.4-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.