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Article #564Re: Is there a bug in Usenet?
From: Edward C. Bennett
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1986 12:36
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1986 12:36
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In article <584@codas.ATT.UUCP>, mikel@codas.ATT.UUCP (Mikel Manitius) writes: > I just logged in to find out that both our active and > history files had been wiped out to zero bytes. It was > easy enough to recover, but does anyone know of a bug > in the news software (ver 2.10.2) that bas been known > to do such things? This is getting real wierd. Thing same thing happened here also! This morning I discovered that my active and history files were gone. Not just empty, but GONE! Judging by the modify time on oactive I'm guessing that expire is the culprit. (I'm running 2.10.3 alpha.) Maybe this is a hidden gotcha in expire.c ;-) -- Edward C. Bennett UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward Kentucky: The state that needs Japan to bring it into the 20th century. "Goodnight M.A."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.news Subject: Re: Is there a bug in Usenet? Message-ID: <513@ukecc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 08:36:22 EDT Article-I.D.: ukecc.513 Posted: Fri Jul 4 08:36:22 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jul-86 00:51:02 EDT References: <584@codas.ATT.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Univ. of Ky. Engineering Computing Center Lines: 22 Summary: It happened here to!