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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Jim Riffle <rif@ns.kconline.com>
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Subject: Re: innd's junk directory
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Jim Riffle wrote:

> 
> Anyone know if you can configure innd so that it doesn't write all of the
> "junk" articles to its junk directory?
> 
> I would like it to either just refuse messages that would be stored there,
> or just not to save them.  Right now I have cron deleting that junk
> directory on a regular basis.  It just seems like a complete waste of
> resources to write that file, and delete it 30 minutes later when that
> news drive already gets enough action.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim
> 
> 

Symlink the junk files to /dev/null.  It's a kludge, but it'll work.


 Ben