From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 17 09:14:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA17854 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA17847 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970116) with ESMTP id MAA06170; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:13:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id MAA29944; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:13:55 -0400 (EDT) To: michael@blueneptune.com cc: pete@ns.altadena.net (Pete Carah), jsuter@linus.intrastar.net, isp@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: News... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:39:02 PDT." <199704170839.BAA25640@rainey.blueneptune.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:13:55 -0400 Message-ID: <29942.861293635@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk michael@blueneptune.com wrote in message ID <199704170839.BAA25640@rainey.blueneptune.com>: > It's pretty simple to write a quick script which will go through the > news spool and remove all files of a particular size, or at least > report to you what they are. We don't run one on a regular basis, > but will run it to clear out some space if the news disk starts to > fill up and cause problems. It's even easier to write a channel feed which gets the headers of all messages over (x) bytes in size and auto-cancels them. Or with inn 1.5 it may even be possible in the perl/tcl hooks (I don't think so tho) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info