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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: cores in /usr/spool/uucp
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.051209.26499@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 05:12:09 GMT
References: <10580@scolex.sco.COM> <289@sporty.UUCP> <1991Mar11.193658.28462@utoday.com>
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Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <1991Mar11.193658.28462@utoday.com> sean@utoday.com (Sean Fulton) writes:
>In article <289@sporty.UUCP> jeff@sporty.UUCP (Super STUD) writes:
>>I am running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on an AMI 25 mhz 386 with 4 megs of ram
>>and a 210 meg hard drive.  Every day when the uucp cleanup daemon cleans
>>the uucp files it reports that I have "cores in /usr/spool/uucp".  Every
>>day I remove the core file.  (It is so bad that I have wondered if I
>>should make it a cron job)!  Has anybody else had this problem?  If so,
>>how do you fix it.
>>
>You don't, it's just an error in the uucico program SCO shipped with
>Xenix. There's a mention in the release notes about it, but it's
>nothing to worry about. I put up with it for more than a year with no
>ill effects.

Furthermore, the uudemon.clean script, which runs whenver your crontab says to
run it, will clean out core file from the spool directory without your
bothering to do it manually.

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr@jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341