If you were to delete the notebooks with a PUT operation, LISTSERV would
take notice and then automatically reindex what's left.

Otherwise I would say yes, delete the db* files when you prune them from
outside of LISTSERV.  They will then be rebuilt the next time someone tries
to search the list's archives.

Nathan

At 09:57 AM 8/16/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I run a job once a month to remove old notebook files.  Our default is to
>keep two months active, but some lists have other settings.
>
>All my monthly task does is remove the expired notebook files and related
>web files.  I just noticed that the dbnames and dbindex files keep growing
>and reference notebook files that are long gone.  This has never caused a
>problem, but I am going to change the monthly job to erase these files if
>it erases any notebook files.
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