From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: a big .newsrc.eld is *fragile*
Date: 16 Feb 1999 15:00:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wh3e46ih3l.fsf@viffer.oslo.metis.no> (raw)
This point comes up from time to time: a big .newsrc.eld holding a lot
of the status information of Gnus is *fragile*.
It's fragile because we risk losing a *lot* of _mostly_ _static_
information, if the .newsrc.eld is corrupted
Right now I had XEmacs crash under me (probably because I exhausted
the virtual memory) and this caused me to have a .newsrc.eld file of
size 0 bytes.
Luckily I have a crontab job copying this file to a machine that takes
real backups. Less luckily this crontab job hasn't been running since
I updated my system from RedHat 5.0 to S.u.S.E. 5.3 on january 8...:-(
One thing is the tickmarks that has disappeared. Far worse is the
group information that may have gone away.
next reply other threads:[~1999-02-16 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-16 14:00 Steinar Bang [this message]
1999-02-19 16:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-19 16:37 ` Steinar Bang
1999-02-19 17:03 ` Colin Rafferty
1999-02-19 19:10 ` Colin Rafferty
1999-02-19 19:33 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-19 17:04 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-02-19 17:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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