Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!mkhaw From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: "vn" disk space leak? Message-ID: <26034@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> Date: 2 Dec 88 01:55:05 GMT References: <203@libove.UUCP> Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA Lines: 16 <203@libove.UUCP>, by root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove): > I use the "vn" news reader to read news, incidentally on a SCO Xenix > 2.2.1 /286 system, and I find that it has a file, hidden somewhere > (I think it opens the file and then unlinks it, so it can be extended > but an "ls" will not give its length as other than zero, or soemthing I don't know about hidden files, but on Ultrix, vn (04/88 version) creates lots of temp files in /usr/tmp that it fails to clean up. I think you get one of these every time you Mail or Followup to an article (as I'm presently doing). Mike Khaw -- internet: mkhaw@teknowledge.arpa uucp: {uunet|sun|ucbvax|decwrl|ames|hplabs}!mkhaw%teknowledge.arpa hardcopy: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303