That darned nnspew!!!

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From: Kurt Swanson
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:20

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For some time our system manager has been grumbling about "some
program that fills up the /usr partition 4 times daily."  It would
fill up the remaining 3.5Mb, then exit, without a trace, having
deleted it 3.5Mb woth of file(s).  Lo and behold it was nnspew that
was the culprit.  We found out that it wants to write out a temporary
file of OVER 8 Mb's four times daily!  We solved the problem by
recompiling with a different TMPDIR, where we had an extra 8Mb, but
it's quite annoying that it needs so much, as well as that it left no
trace of itself having caused any problems - including in the Log
file...
-- 
Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
Lunds universitet.  Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se

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Subject: That darned nnspew!!!
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