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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Non-empty spool directories- another problem
Message-ID: <436@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 13:38:03 EST
Article-I.D.: moncol.436
Posted: Mon Nov 10 13:38:03 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Nov-86 05:08:05 EST
Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ
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Keywords: checkgroups, spool directory, rmgroup

It would appear that the current reorganization may have brought up another
flaw in the 'rmgroup' script.

A few weeks ago, the removal of talk.religion brought out a flaw in the
pre-2.11 rmgroup script. Not only was talk.religion removed, but so were
the spool driectories for talk.religion.misc, etc. The fix basically
consisted of changing an 'rm -rf' of the newsgroup's spool directory to an
'rm *' followed by an 'rmdir' of the directory.

Today I ran the latest checkgroups message, however, and got hit with the
opposite problem. In essence, I was removing net.astro and net.astro.expert
in that order. When rmgroup got to net.astro, it removed all the net.astro
files, but couldn't remove /usr/spool/news/net/astro since it was a
non-empty directory. Next it went to remove net.astro.expert which went
fine. The only problem is that now I have an "orphaned"
/usr/spool/net/astro directory.

Conceivably, this will also be a problem when we eventually go to remove
'net'.

At the moment, I don't have a good suggestion for a fix. I did want to
point this out for the benefit of those with small filesystems, etc.

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