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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Big $SPOOL/.rnews directory
Message-ID: <401@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 16:26:53 GMT
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland CA
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I have a situation where /usr/spool/news/.rnews seems to be filled
up with old files that never seem to go away.  Currently it amounts
to about 8 MB on my system.   The latest file has not been touched
since Sept. 11, 1988.    I couldn't find much documentation on the
contents of $SPOOL/.rnews, but by looking at the source it appears
to be temp files related to unbatching and un-compressing.  Why
aren't these files going away?  Is it safe to delete them now?
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