In article <Pine.GSO.4.58.0312110940290.19023@suns87>, Patrick Vervoorn <patrick.vervoorn@perihelion.demon.nl> wrote: >It indeed only happens quite infrequently, but when it happens, it's very >bothersome to recover from... I have taken to running trn as an alias: trn env TMPDIR=/usr/tmp trn ; egrep '[0-9]{8}' ~/.newsrc So when I exit trn, it immediately greps my .newsrc for bogus numbers. Thing is... I don't recall actually seeing this for a while... but then again... I have also taken to having a cron job which kills trn on a nightly basis so it can update .newsrc behind it's back. I do wonder if those are correlated... mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/
