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1.1     ! root        1: .TH EXPIRE 8
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: expire \- remove outdated news articles
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .BR /usr/lib/news/expire " [ " \-n
        !             6: .IR newsgroups " ] [ "
        !             7: .BR \-i " ] [ " \-I " ] [ " \-v " [ "
        !             8: .IR level " ] ] [ "
        !             9: .BI \-e days
        !            10:  ] 
        !            11:  [ 
        !            12: .B \-a
        !            13:  ] 
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .PP
        !            16: .I Expire
        !            17: is normally started up by
        !            18: .IR cron (8)
        !            19: every night to remove all expired news.
        !            20: If no newsgroups are specified, the default is to expire
        !            21: .BR all .
        !            22: .PP
        !            23: Articles whose specified expiration date has already passed
        !            24: are considered expirable.
        !            25: The
        !            26: .B \-a
        !            27: option causes expire to archive articles in /usr/spool/oldnews.
        !            28: Otherwise, the articles are unlinked.
        !            29: .PP
        !            30: The
        !            31: .B \-v
        !            32: option causes expire to be more verbose.
        !            33: It can be given a verbosity level (default 1) as in
        !            34: .B \-v3
        !            35: for even more output.
        !            36: This is useful if articles aren't being expired and you want to know why.
        !            37: .PP
        !            38: The
        !            39: .B \-e
        !            40: flag gives the number of days to use for a default expiration date.
        !            41: If not given, an installation dependent default (often 2 weeks) is used.
        !            42: .PP
        !            43: The
        !            44: .B \-i
        !            45: and
        !            46: .B \-I
        !            47: flags
        !            48: tell
        !            49: .B expire
        !            50: to ignore any expiration date explicitly given on articles.
        !            51: This can be used when disk space is really tight.
        !            52: The
        !            53: .B \-I
        !            54: flag will always ignore expiration dates,
        !            55: while the
        !            56: .B \-i
        !            57: flag will only ignore the date if ignoring it would expire the article sooner.
        !            58: .I WARNING:
        !            59: If you have articles archived by giving them expiration dates far into the
        !            60: future, these options might remove these files anyway.
        !            61: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            62: checknews(1),
        !            63: inews(1),
        !            64: readnews(1),
        !            65: recnews(8),
        !            66: sendnews(8),
        !            67: uurec(8)

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