expirerm - Remove articles that have been expired
expirerm is a script that removes a list of files. The specified
file lists the files to be removed. It is usually created by expire
-z. This file is sorted, and then fed into a pipeline responsible for
doing the removal, normally fastrm. (You may want to edit
expirerm to change the flags passed to fastrm.)
If there seemed to be a problem removing the files, then a mail is
sent to the news administrator. If there were no problems, then file
is renamed to pathlog/expire.list where it is kept (for safety) until
the next time expiration is done.
Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich
$alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>. Converted to POD by
Julien Elie.
expire(8), fastrm(1), newslog(5).