sndelgroup,v0.3.8(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

sndelgroup — bestie's little helper for deleting an existing sn newsgroup 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sndelgroup newsgroup...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so sndelgroup deletes the newsgroups you name — and when we say deletes, we mean it takes out everything under /var/spool/sn/newsgroup after it's done removing the article ID entries in the sn database. like, full send. no crumbs left in the database, that's the whole point 🫶

🚨 bestie listen to me. do NOT just run rm -rf /var/spool/sn/newsgroup because that will leave unreclaimed garbage in the database 😭 like it's giving "I cleaned my room by shoving everything in the closet". the db will be sitting there with stale entries and nobody wants that.

also you need to own /var/spool/sn to do this, that's the vibe check, no ownership no deletion 💀

🎀 FILES MODIFIED 🎀

the things that get touched when you run this:

• /var/spool/sn/{.chain,.newsgroup}
• the newsgroup directory and its contents
• /var/spool/sn/.ougtoing/news.server.name:port

(yes that path is exactly as written, ougtoing and all, we don't editorialise 🌸)

🦋 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🦋

• SNROOT — if this is set and is not empty, its value gets used instead of /var/spool/sn, which is the default news spool directory. so if your spool lives somewhere else, this is your girl 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• snnewgroup

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little icon was written by Harold Tay, it's part of the System Manager's Manual, it's version sndelgroup,v0.3.8, and the footer just says N.B. 🩷 so go forth and delete responsibly — reclaim your garbage, own your spool, and don't rm -rf your way into a database situation. periodt 💅✨🌈