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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: mirror and perl
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> >Oh dear!  I've found mirror-2.8 + perl5.001m to be pretty good.
>  
> I would have to agree, opn all but one point. the -F option always tries to
> write the db files in the / directory.. highly anoying.. 2.3 didn't do
> this.. just leeked memory :-)

This is because of a typo in the mirror script: big_tmp vs. big_temp.
One of these is set to /var/tmp but the empty one (defaulting to /)
is being used later.

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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de