From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5957 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wayne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: problem: .overview~[0-9]*~ files not being deleted Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:11:43 GMT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671580 29531 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:39:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:36:05 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!news.nask.pl!news.nask.org.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news-feed-01.socal.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:stIadPuE7nK+HnlvjZV8oG2Xg4I= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.52.51.37 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com 1131070303 67.52.51.37 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:11:43 CST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:11:43 CST Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:6099 Original-Lines: 28 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 6099 Tue Jan 17 17:36:05 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5957 Archived-At: Ok, I have a wierd one that I hope someone has heard of before. I've poked around some, but I can't find the cause. I confess I haven't dug deeply into the code though. 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. I think this started happening when I upgraded to gnus "No gnus v0.4", but I'm not certain. It took a while before I noticed that my disk was overflowing with them. I'm running Debian Linux and uxing "XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) \"Jumbo Shrimp\" [Lucid] (i386-debian-linux) of Sat May 28 2005 on penell" Other than the accumulation of these .overview files, things seem to be working fine. Any ideas? Should I just create a cron job to delete them? -wayne