From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/6027 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: problem: .overview~[0-9]*~ files not being deleted Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:35:48 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671638 29873 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:36:12 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-67-10-132-40.houston.res.rr.com Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1131773827 24473 67.10.132.40 (12 Nov 2005 05:37:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 05:37:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kql5CvNuL/iJf1R17avp1V/PL9Q= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:6169 Original-Lines: 32 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 6169 Tue Jan 17 17:36:12 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:6027 Archived-At: wayne writes: > In Kevin Greiner writes: > >> wayne writes: >> >>> A while back, I suddenly started to accumulate old .overview~[0-9]*~ >>> files in my ~/News/agent/ subdirectories. They stick around for ever, >>> so it isn't just keeping the last 4 files. They seem to accumulate in >>> most groups, but maybe not all of them. >>> >>> [...] >> >> The cron job is a good idea. The agent is generating these files >> because it corrected an error in the overview file. > > I saw some discussions about the backup overview files being created > when errors were detected, so I went and deleted *all* the overview > files. The backup files were immediately being created. So, this > isn't a case of a rare corruption of the .overview that sticks around. > Whatever it is, the problem happens very quickly. Now, that's interesting. There's quite a few agent users in the world so this isn't a common issue. There must be something about the nntp headers that your server is providing. There are messages written as the same time as the backup is created. Something like 'Duplicate overview line for ...' or 'Overview buffer not sorted'. Can you tell me which message you are seeing? You might need to look in the *Messages* buffer to find it. TIA, Kevin