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 <expat.arizonan@gmail.com> 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

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