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Re: History and active getting blown away?

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From: Karl Lehenbauer
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 17:17
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Running out of disk space during an expire can trash your history file in Bnews.

Being out of disk space in your spool partition at the start of an expire
can trash your active file in Bnews.  (at least some parts of news create
temp files in the spool partition, including a copy of active)
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Message-ID: <KI:1HXBxds12@ficc.uu.net>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!karl
References: <CHET.90Feb28102427@arc.arc.UUCP>

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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: History and active getting blown away?
Message-ID: <KI:1HXBxds12@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 2 Mar 90 17:17:12 GMT
References: <CHET.90Feb28102427@arc.arc.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
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Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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