From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 17 18:15:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA21776 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper5a.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA21758; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03105; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:15:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:15:23 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@zeus.xtalwind.net To: Gary Palmer cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... In-Reply-To: <29942.861293635@orion.webspan.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Gary Palmer wrote: > > 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) %man inetd(8) {1.5.1 from ports} [snip] OPTIONS [snip] -l To limit the size of an article, use the ``-l'' flag. If this flag is used, then any article big- ger than size bytes will be rejected. The default is no checking, which can also be obtained by using a value of zero. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------