I use to use Pan quite a bit back in the day. I believe it is dumping the headers to /tmp while it is downloading the headers. You can use something like strace to watch it run if you are really curious. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Derek Trotter wrote: > I've been using Pan 0.139 for a few days and I noticed something. While > it's downloading headers, none of the files in my .pan2 directory increase > in size, nor are any new files added. When Pan is done downloading > headers, it writes them to a file in the .pan2/groups directory. However > it's also writing something to my home directory before anything turns up > in .pan2/groups. I run df in my home directory (My home directory gets an > entire 2TB disk.) and every minute or two it shows the free space > decreasing. This happens when I have no web browsers, email clients or any > other program running except for Pan. I'm curious where Pan puts this data > before it's written to a file in .pan2/groups. Any ideas? > > Here's what I've seen. > > delboy@ladmo:~/pan2$ df /home/delboy > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdd2 1922728752 1730809480 191902888 91% /home/delboy > delboy@ladmo:~/pan2$ df /home/delboy > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdd2 1922728752 1730809800 191902568 91% /home/delboy > > Thanks > > -- > "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m > not there, I carry on as usual." > > Patrick Moore > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss