[Mailman-Developers] >Hmm, I see none of these on mail.python.org which gates

[Patriot]

 >Hmm, I see none of these on mail.python.org which gates   
   
 >comp.lang.python and comp.lang.python.announce (in both directions).   
   
 >Python's nntplib doesn't appear to create any temp files, so I don't   
   
 >think it's coming from there, and I'm /sure/ Mailman doesn't create   
   
 >any temp files.   
   
 >   
   
 >Is your usenet software on the same machine as Mailman?  Could those   
   
 >files be created by your news s/w?  Who is the user and group owner of   
   
 >those files?   
   
 >   
   
 >-Barry   
   
 >   
   
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       389120 Feb 27 18:01 filezSQFHI   
   
   
 But your question is valid, and I hadn't thoughtof it.  The gatewaying 
stuff I have left in the mailman crontab and there's not anyway it should 
be able to create those files as 'root', unless the wrapper's doing it.   
   
   
 In any event, I have no idea what's causing this.  As for 'usenet 
software' I'm not using anything but the gatewaying software.  The usenet 
server's not on the same machine, it's at a different ISP...and again, 
like I said, each of those files is specifically a file full of each 
usenet posting that I have gatewayed.  
   
   
 I'm stumped.