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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.news
Subject: Re: Is there a bug in Usenet?
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Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 14:01:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 30 14:01:02 1986
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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. .....
> but does anyone know of a bug
>in the news software (ver 2.10.2) that bas [sic] been known
>to do such things?

Yes, unfortunately.  I've been hit by this several times.  The usual
cause is running out of space on the filesystem used by sort (i.e.,
/usr/tmp).  Except to suggest that you try to avoid running out of
space, I know of no cure.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA