root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) (11/30/88)
I use the "vn" news reader to read news, incidentally on a SCO Xenix 2.2.1 /286 system, and I find that it has a file, hidden somewhere (I think it opens the file and then unlinks it, so it can be extended but an "ls" will not give its length as other than zero, or soemthing else...) that grows linearly with the time vn remains running, even if absolutely nothing at all has been done. In the course of an hour, 400K of disk space was eaten, in the particular instance that keyed me off to send this note out. Is anyone famailiar with this? Does anyone know exactly what is happenning, why it is happenning, what I can do about it? Thanks in advance- -- Jay Libove ARPA: jl42@andrew.cmu.edu or libove@cs.cmu.edu 5731 Centre Ave, Apt 3 BITnet: jl42@andrew or jl42@drycas Pittsburgh, PA 15206 UUCP: uunet!nfsun!libove!libove or (412) 362-8983 UUCP: psuvax1!pitt!darth!libove!libove
mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (12/02/88)
<203@libove.UUCP>, by root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove): > I use the "vn" news reader to read news, incidentally on a SCO Xenix > 2.2.1 /286 system, and I find that it has a file, hidden somewhere > (I think it opens the file and then unlinks it, so it can be extended > but an "ls" will not give its length as other than zero, or soemthing I don't know about hidden files, but on Ultrix, vn (04/88 version) creates lots of temp files in /usr/tmp that it fails to clean up. I think you get one of these every time you Mail or Followup to an article (as I'm presently doing). Mike Khaw -- internet: mkhaw@teknowledge.arpa uucp: {uunet|sun|ucbvax|decwrl|ames|hplabs}!mkhaw%teknowledge.arpa hardcopy: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303