Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mmlai!burzio
From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: .sh_history explodes
Keywords: disk full
Message-ID: <4@gauss.mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 90 12:22:51 GMT
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore
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Came upon an interesting problem.  I am using an HP375 running
HP-UX V7.0 X11 hpterms with the ksh shell.  The operating system is the
pre-loaded variety, with the cute login window and xctl application
launcher.

Every so often, the .sh_history will start to grow very large.  After
a while (with the SCSI disk blinking away) the disk will fill up
completely.  The operator console merrily tells me the disk is full
(oh be quiet, I KNOW! :-)  To fix the problem, I delete the .sh_history,
but the disk usage (from bdf) doesn't drop until a reboot is performed.
I didn't see any other processes running, and the file wasn't locked.

Has anyone else seen this happen?

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