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Article #3246Re: preventing articles from expiring
From: Dennis Wicks
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 02:03
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 02:03
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In article <1992Oct2.181437.18855@schbbs.mot.com> mshah@next3.corp.mot.com writes: >We have a news group that carries some standards which do not change >frequently. They are set to expire in 365 days. Is there a way to >get around this and prevent this articles from expiring after the >set period of 365 days which is the max. allowable limit for the version of >news we are running. This way we will be releived from the burden of >re-posting them. > Thanks in advance. > >-Manish Shah > mshah@next3.corp.mot.com Well, I am pretty new to *nix based systems, but why don't you just let them expire and set up a cron job to repost the articles from your archives once a year? If this won't work, please let me know why. It might save me some time trying to do something similar later on! :-)
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Newsgroups: news.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pilchuck!uw-coco!nwnexus!guru From: guru@halcyon.com (Dennis Wicks) Subject: Re: preventing articles from expiring Message-ID: <1992Oct4.020329.19737@nwnexus.WA.COM> Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer) Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service References: <1992Oct2.181437.18855@schbbs.mot.com> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 02:03:29 GMT Lines: 19