>Secondly, I used to feed the output to a virtual terminal, but decided that
>having a hard copy that I could periodically check was better. I've been
>piping all the output to a file, such as mprime -d
>>>/home/GIMPS/tracking.txt. When it finishes reporting a result, I delete
>everything but the result and let mprime continue on to the next LL test
>using the same file.
If you delete a file while a program is writing to it, it will keep on writing
to the now nameless file, and will keep eating up disk space, until the program
quits or closes the file, at which time the file will disappear.
phma
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