From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/6026 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wayne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: problem: .overview~[0-9]*~ files not being deleted Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 04:43:27 GMT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com 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 29867 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 17:36:11 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!feed.news.interia.pl!news.cyf-kr.edu.pl!news.nask.pl!news.nask.org.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news.glorb.com!hwmnpeer01.lga!hwmedia!news-server.columbus.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:gtL5dtWvntxYb4v+I5zn6h/N56A= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.52.51.37 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com 1131770607 67.52.51.37 (Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:43:27 CST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:43:27 CST Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:6168 Original-Lines: 22 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 6168 Tue Jan 17 17:36:11 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:6026 Archived-At: 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. -wayne