gdelong@cvman.prime.com (Gary Delong) (06/01/89)
After the discussion on /usr/spool/news/.rnews, I thought I might bring up something I've been wondering about. | ls /usr/spool/news/.[ai]* | | -rw-r--r-- 2 news news 11290 May 31 07:14 .ara19398 | -rw-r--r-- 2 news news 12631 May 31 07:14 .ara19403 | -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 32625 May 31 07:14 .ina19415 | -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 24889 May 31 07:14 .ina19418 | [...many more...] The .ara????? files are all postings to comp.mail.maps (which seemed to have been posted ok) and the .ina????? files seem to be the maps with the headers stripped. I've been rm'ing them manually, but does anyone know why they are showing up in the first place? Or is this some neat feature I don't know how to use? -- _____ / \ / Gary A. Delong, N1BIP "I am the NRA." gdelong@cvman.prime.com | \ / COMPUTERVISION Division {sun|linus}!cvbnet!gdelong \____\/ Prime Computer, Inc. (603) 622-1260 x 261
vskahan@lgnp1.LS.COM (Vince Skahan) (06/03/89)
In article <116@cvman.prime.com> gdelong@cvman.prime.com (Gary Delong) writes: > >The .ara????? files are all postings to comp.mail.maps (which >seemed to have been posted ok) and the .ina????? files seem to >be the maps with the headers stripped. > I have to put stuff into crontab on my Apollo ring to handle this garbage that gets left around and I've never seen anything to explain why it exists to begin with. In my case, it looked like ALL articles not just the maps got left there much like you described (news at patchlevel 14, rn at patchlevel 40) I just waste all of them with cron every 4 hours and it works just fine (although it's one of the most gross kludges I've ever had to do). -- Vince Skahan - please reply to skahan@boeing.com or bcsaic!psev!bcs212 Note: any comments expressed above are mine and have no relation to Boeing or the real nice folks who let me read news on their system...