Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!denny From: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Denny Page) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: B news unmanageable? Message-ID: <1209@mcmi.UUCP> Date: 18 Jul 89 19:44:28 GMT References: <1989Jul10.195611.9665@pcrat.uucp> <1989Jul11.041715.10756@pcrat.uucp> Reply-To: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Denny Page) Distribution: na Organization: MCMI, Omaha, NE Lines: 15 rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: >2.11B news would leave zero length news articles around, not in the history >files, so expire wouldn't delete them. It also left these babies around >in /usr/spool/news: [...] >And then there were the L<* files left in /tmp. It's not supposed to do that :-). >had I not given up patching it after patch 12 or 13. Perhaps you should have stuck with it. Level 14 does not appear to have these problems unless you kill news processes or you have problems in your sys file. -- Someday has arrived