smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) (05/08/85)
Several users here have had trouble with readnews (2.10.2) wiping out their
.newsrc file. Specifically, the temporary file /tmp/newsaXXXXX vanishes
(at least according to the message displayed), which in some fashion causes
a null file to be written on top of .newsrc. Has anyone seen this problem?
Better yet, does anyone have a fix?
--Steve Bellovin
{ihnp4,allegra,most of BTL,unc}!ulysses!smbphil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (05/09/85)
In article <969@ulysses.UUCP>, smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) writes: > Several users here have had trouble with readnews (2.10.2) wiping out their > .newsrc file. Specifically, the temporary file /tmp/newsaXXXXX vanishes Yes, that happened to me. Turns out a user I had berated for writing bad software that leaves lots of /tmp/xxx files around had done me the "favor" of rm /tmp/*. Boy was I pissed. This is like deleting someone's compiler intermediate files except it's a lot more painful to recover from. -- I speak for myself and no one else. Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720 UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.ARPA