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From: vskahan@lgnp1.LS.COM (Vince Skahan)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: dot files in /usr/spool/news
Message-ID: <1569@lgnp1.LS.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 89 01:30:03 GMT
References: <116@cvman.prime.com>
Reply-To: vskahan@lgnp1.UUCP (Vince Skahan)
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Organization: Boeing Computer Services - Phila.
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In article <116@cvman.prime.com> gdelong@cvman.prime.com (Gary Delong) writes:
>
>The .ara????? files are all postings to comp.mail.maps (which
>seemed to have been posted ok) and the .ina????? files seem to
>be the maps with the headers stripped.
>
I have to put stuff into crontab on my Apollo ring to handle this
garbage that gets left around and I've never seen anything to explain
why it exists to begin with.

In my case, it looked like ALL articles not just the maps got left there
much like you described (news at patchlevel 14, rn at patchlevel 40)

I just waste all of them with cron every 4 hours and it works just fine
(although it's one of the most gross kludges I've ever had to do).

-- 
Vince Skahan - please reply to skahan@boeing.com or bcsaic!psev!bcs212

Note: any comments expressed above are mine and have no relation to
Boeing or the real nice folks who let me read news on their system...