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From: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: New Newsgroup Queries
Message-ID: <9919@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 89 16:19:50 GMT
References: <4470@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
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In article <4470@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes:
>In article <3599@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> msc@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (michael.s.cross,sk,) writes:
>]   [...]
>]Another problem with leaving all the lines in the .newsrc file appears when
>]you have a News-server machine and are limited to 300 blocks of storage ...
>]one or two KILL files and you're out of room.
>        (This is a local problem)
>        Make sure you don't have a lot of .article.* and letter.*
>        files around using up space (do ls -a to see them.)

To clean out old files of this sort, I put the following command
in my Unix .profile file.

    find $HOME \(  -name .article.[1-9]\* -o -name .letter.[1-9]\*   \
                -o -name dead.art\* -o -name dead.let\* \)   \
            -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; &

(The "-mtime +7"  specifies "last mod time was more than 7 days ago".
 You may want to adjust the number.  The trailing "&" runs the command
 in the background, while .profile finishes and I start up "rn". )
--
Dick Grady              r_r_grady@att.com          ...!att!mvuxd!r4