<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My DXSpider cluster has been quite well behaved for
eons. Most recent changes are a switch to K1EA for spot feeds and updated
WINXP to SP2. Over the past couple weeks the 10G harddrive has
filled twice.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The users_asc file was 7Gb in both
cases.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now I see that the base CRONTAB file has an
export-user command in it. I have commented it out. I have also
deleted the 5 generations of users_asc (the .o, .oo, .ooo
etc.).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another observation, my users.V3 is 8Mb - I thought
(dangerous) that this would only have my registered users, but it obviously has
many many more.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, finally, to my questions:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) Is there something abberant about my users.V3
file?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) What is the purpose of the export_user command
in the base CRONTAB file? I cannot find a companion import function for
rebuild or ???</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for reading this novel :-)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best 73, Bill N2BC</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>