Deleting CNFS Entries
To delete CNFS entries, follow these steps:
1.From the Administration utility Main menu, choose Manage Components.
2.On the Manage Components menu, choose InterNetNews.
3.From the InterNetNews Administration menu, choose Configure Storage Options.
4.From the Configure Storage Options menu, choose Configure the CNFS Storage Method.
5.Choose Modify Storage Method Entries.
The Modify CNFS Entries menu is displayed, showing the currently defined CNFS entries.
6.To delete a cycbuff entry:
a.Select a name in the Existing Cycbuff Entries list.
b.Click on Delete.
7.To delete a metacycbuff entry:
a.Select a name in the Existing Metacycbuff Entries list.
b.Click on Delete.
Managing Article Expiration
News articles can accumulate quickly, depending on the newsgroups to which you subscribe and the amount of news traffic for that newsgroup. As a result, a significant amount of disk space can be consumed in a short time. Most news articles fed to you do not contain an expiration header, or time limit, after which the article is purged from your system.
The /usr/news/etc/history file contains a record of news articles stored in the news system, as well as those that have been received but since expired. If your InterNetNews (INN) Server finds an article being offered to you recorded in the /usr/news/etc/history file, the server determines that the article has already been offered and expires the article to avoid offering it again.
When purging an article, the expire program supplied by the INN server breaks the link to that article. For more information, see the expire(8) and the expire.ctl(5) reference pages.
Choose Modify Article Expiration Definitions from the InterNetNews Administration menu to display the Modify Article Expiration Definitions menu. You can use this menu to perform the following tasks:
•Display existing article expiration definitions (see Section : Displaying Article Expiration Definitions)
•Add a new article expiration definition (see Section : Adding an Article Expiration Definition)
•Modify an existing article expiration definition (see Section : Modifying an Article Expiration Definition)
•Delete an article expiration definition (see Section : Deleting an Article Expiration Definition)
•Modify the retention period for expired articles (see Section : Modifying the Retention Period for Expired Articles)
Displaying Article Expiration Definitions
To see the article expiration definitions that currently exist for your INN server, follow these steps:
1.From the Administration utility Main menu, choose Manage Components.
2.On the Manage Components menu, choose InterNetNews.
3.From the InterNetNews Administration menu, choose Modify Article Expiration Definitions.
4.From the Modify Article Expiration Definitions menu, choose Display Article Expiration Definitions.
The Administration utility supplies the following default article expiration definitions:
