jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) (10/10/88)
On my system, all my news is spooled in /usr/spool/news . What I would like to know, is if I remove a directory, for example, /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga, and then I receive news that night, would news automatically re-create the directory and put news there? I ask because occasionally I have removed and recreated directories that were getting large (sizes above 12000) and would rather just remove them and have less work to do. Thanks in advance for any help or assistance you give. -Jo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Joseph E Poplawski (Jo) US Mail: 1621 Jackson Street | | Cinnaminson NJ 08077 | |UUCP:..!rutgers!rochester!moscom!telesci!fantasci!jep | | ..!princeton!telesci!fantasci!jep Phone: +1 609 786-8099 home | | ..!pyrnj!telesci!fantasci!jep | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef) (10/12/88)
>if I remove a directory, for example, /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga, >and then I receive news that night, would news automatically re-create the >directory and put news there? Sure. If a new newsgroup is created, you don't need to create the belonging directory yourself. If you delete a newsdirectory, the news software will re- create it if necessary. >occasionally I have removed and recreated directories that were >getting large (sizes above 12000) drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 18336 Oct 12 03:30 /usr/spool/news/junk I almost never clean up this directory; it is large, it keeps on going being large; however, if the size grows above 30000, I think (on sys5), find(1) will complain: "Huge directory --call administrator", but then I will clean it up. "We junk a lot. That's why our sys file is fairly large, and our disk is fairly 'sizeful'."