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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: tuning number of inodes for cnews
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.040532.21943@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Mar1.230651.4574@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> <1991Mar3.001647.18652@zoo.toronto.edu> <JBRYANS.91Mar3110745@beach.csulb.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1991 04:05:32 GMT

In article <JBRYANS.91Mar3110745@beach.csulb.edu> jbryans@beach.csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes:
>...I wonder if
>we can get away w/freeing inodes by a brute force rm'ing of cancel msgs from
>control.  Something like egrep ...|xargs ...|rm ...  Would expiration object?

In general, the contents of control are pretty uninteresting, so you might
want to skip the egrep.  That's one group that ought to have a real short
expiry time, in case you're not doing that already.  As for simply removing
things, no problem:  history entry present but article missing is the normal
state of affairs after a cancellation -- cancel removes the article but it's
way too much trouble to delete the history entry -- so expire considers this
a normal case, and won't even complain.
-- 
"But this *is* the simplified version   | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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