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| Subject: (6.11) What does the output of "expire -v1'' mean? |
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(Based on a submission from Chris Johnson <cj@sra.com>) Running expire with -v1 option produces output like: Removed approximately 764913k
Article lines processed 1044872
Articles retained 872883
Entries expired 171989
Files unlinked 239657
Old entries dropped 0
Old entries retained 103038
"Article lines processed": the number of lines in the the history filethat were read by the expire program (it reads through the entire history file when it runs) "Articles retained": the lines left in the history file after some of the lines (entries) are dropped. "Entries expired": the number of entries/articles listed in the history file that were deemed old enough to be deleted; this equals "Article lines processed" - "Articles retained" "Files unlinked": the number of files deleted from the file system where 1 file equals 1 article; however, this number can be much higher than "Entries expired" because a single entry can be posted to multiple groups and you get 1 file for each group it is posted to "Old entries dropped": lines deleted from the history file that are only present because of the value of /remember/ in expire.ctl "Old entries retained": lines left in the history file for articles that have already expired (Note that running expire with -t option articles are not deleted from filesystem and the output changes slightly to: Would remove approximately 103623k). Running expire with -z option also does not remove files, but writes a list of files to be removed (see entries about "delayrm" and "fastrm" in this FAQ) See also the manpage for expire ... ------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/07/01 01:25:41 $ $Revision: 2.21 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |
