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From: jack@hpindda.HP.COM (Jack Repenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: .sh_history explodes
Message-ID: <4310131@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 90 20:50:16 GMT
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In comp.sys.hp, burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes:

> 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?

Haven't seen it, but another question occurs to me: have you tried
exiting all ksh's (for example, logging out all sessions, or going to
single-user mode and ^D'ing that shell [if root's shell is ksh])?  

I'm not clear on exactly what you meant by "other processes," but I
share your suspicion that some process has the history file open, and
hence rm doesn't really remove it, only unlinks it from the directory.

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