Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The files in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups are the groups that will be > downloaded next time fetch runs.
That's strictly correct, but let me expand on it a little. When fetch sees e.g. interesting.groups/comp.os.linux.advocacy, it reads all new articles in comp.os.linux.advocacy, and creates directories for the groups those new postings are cross-posted to. Fetch does this so that if you decide to follow a cross-posted thread into another group, you won't have to reread the articles you've read already. These extra directories do not add up to much compared to the space taken by the never-read articles you're most likely pulling in: while du will tell you there's lots of files in the extra directories, every one of them is hard-linked to a group directory you don't want to be without. > Delete files there if you don't want these newsgroups. Or just stop reading the newsgroups, and leafnode will eventually delete the files itself. Takes a week or so. --Arnt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
