Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews - turning off log file
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.153943.25167@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul15.150345.7308@nstar.uucp>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 90 15:39:43 GMT

In article <1990Jul15.150345.7308@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>how does one turn off the creation of the log
>file when running the latest release of cnews?

There is no off-the-shelf provision for this, although if your system has
symbolic links you can symlink log to /dev/null.  An alternative is just
to run a cron job to truncate the log, say, once an hour.
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