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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                      3: expire \- remove outdated news articles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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