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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: missing /tmp/newsa* file (2.10.2)
Message-ID: <1278@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 01:40:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 01:40:08 1985
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In article <969@ulysses.UUCP>, smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) writes:
> Several users here have had trouble with readnews (2.10.2) wiping out their
> .newsrc file.  Specifically, the temporary file /tmp/newsaXXXXX vanishes

Yes, that happened to me. Turns out a user I had berated for writing bad
software that leaves lots of /tmp/xxx files around had done me the "favor"
of rm /tmp/*. Boy was I pissed. This is like deleting someone's compiler
intermediate files except it's a lot more painful to recover from.

-- 
 I speak for myself and no one else.

 Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
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