diff --git a/trunk/ripnews/news/article.rb b/trunk/ripnews/news/article.rb
index 6470402..cbfe52a 100644
--- a/trunk/ripnews/news/article.rb
+++ b/trunk/ripnews/news/article.rb
@@ -907,7 +907,13 @@ def cache_save(cachedir, server)
 		file = File.new( "#{filename}.#{server}", "a+" ) or puts "couldn't open cachefile for writing"
 #		print "Updating cache...\n"
 		@cache_buf[server].sort!
-		file.print @cache_buf[server]
+		@cache_buf[server].each{|line|
+			begin
+				file.puts line
+			rescue Encoding::UndefinedConversionError
+				next
+			end
+		}
 		file.close
 		@cache_buf[server] = []
 #		print "Cache updated for #{server}\n"
diff --git a/trunk/ripnews/ripnews.rb b/trunk/ripnews/ripnews.rb
index 03e766f..1f81e12 100755
--- a/trunk/ripnews/ripnews.rb
+++ b/trunk/ripnews/ripnews.rb
@@ -446,6 +446,20 @@ def unlock
 	File.unlink(@config[group]["LOCKFILE"])
 end
 
+def cleantmp
+	puts "Removing old tmp files"
+	@config.each_key{ |group |
+		Dir.glob("#{@config[group]["TEMPDIR"]}/riptmp*"){ |file|
+			begin
+				File.delete(file)
+			rescue
+				puts "Couldn't remove #{file}"
+				next
+			end
+		}
+	}
+end
+
 def renice
 	group = @config.keys[0]
 	if @config[group].has_key?("NICE")
@@ -724,6 +738,8 @@ def startup
 		end
 	}
 
+	cleantmp
+
 	@maxfilelength = get_max_file_length(@config[@config.keys[0]]["TEMPDIR"])
 
 #	puts "\n$Id$"