Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cos!asp
From: asp@cos.com (Andrew S. Partan)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Missing history file??
Message-ID: <1219@cos.com>
Date: 24 Mar 88 16:45:42 GMT
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
Lines: 34
Summary: Went during an expire run??

I got the following message last night:
	From: news
	Date: 24 Mar 88 06:17:57 GMT
	To: usenet
	Subject: Missing files!
	Responding-System: cos.com

	System: cos.com

	There was a problem with /usr/local/lib/news/history!!
	The problem has been taken care of.

Checking in the code, it seems as if my history file got zapped and was
recreated.  Does anyone know how a history file can be zapped?  It has
never happened (to me) before.

It seems to have happened during my expire run.  I run 13 expires every
night, each with a different set of newsgroups for different amounts of
time.  The history file seems to have gone away either before or during
the 3rd or 4th expire run.

The only thing that I was changing yesterday was my ~news/sys file to
try to get an ihave/sendme feed up & running the way that I would like
it.

I am running news B 2.11, patchlevel 14.

Mystified,
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