Williams, Paul wrote:
>I noticed that we are gzipping the archive files, nightly
>with
>
>27 3 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /opt/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip
>
>but it also leaves a copy of the uncompressed archives.
>
>Is this the proper behavior?
It is what it is designed to do.
>Is it possible to
On our system, we do a monthly rotation of archives, and
keep about 12 months of the gzipped files in the *.mbox directories.
Then periodically we clean up the archives when we are running
out of space and truncate the archives which can be downloaded,
to either 6 or 12 months using the arch --wip
