Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!PACRAT.NPAC.SYR.EDU!jerryp From: jerryp@PACRAT.NPAC.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: # signs in inbox Message-ID: <8812021334.AA04237@PacRat.NPAC.syr.edu> Date: 2 Dec 88 13:34:02 GMT References:<8812011831.aa18248@ICS.UCI.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 > I notice that when I refile items from my inbox the orignal messages > are stored in files with the same number but with a '#' sign in > the first position. Are these removed by mh? On systems I know of, they're removed by cron(8), with a line in the crontab file. The line looks something like this: 45 3 * * * find / -name "[,#]*" -type f -atime +7 -print | xargs rm -f Once a day (at 3:45 AM) it searches the filesystem for files whose name starts with "#" or "," and which haven't been read or written in 7 days. It removes those files. --Jerry Peek, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse, NY jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu +1 315 443-1722