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From: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: history file missing
Summary: Problem fixed!
Message-ID: <346@vedge.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 19:03:27 GMT
References: <330@vedge.UUCP>
Reply-To: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, PQ
Lines: 40
Posted: Thu May 26 15:03:27 1988

In article <330@vedge.UUCP> lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) writes:
>Hi again.  I posted a message a few weeks back when I had some problems
>with the history file disappearing.  I thought it was a problem with
>dbm or with expire.  Well I replaced dbm with the recently posted dbz.
>I still have the problems (sometimes the history file disappears after
>expire, sometimes after posting a message, seems to happen at random).
>It is most annoying as it happens about once every two days.  Does anyone
>out there experience the same problems, and how did you solve it.
>(we run news 2.11 patchlevel 14 on a sun-3.  We expire with -e 10 -E 30.)
>
>Thanks.
>
>PS once in a while the active file disappears too!

Thanks to Keith S Pickens who solved my problem, indeed 3 machines were
running expire simultaneously, causing all sorts of wierd files to
disappear.

=From: ut-sally!swrinde!maxwell!ksp@gatech (Keith S. Pickens)
=Message-Id: <8805210300.AA03329@maxwell.swri.edu>
=To: lai@vedge.com
=Subject: Re:  history file missing
=
=We experienced a similar problem.  Our news libs are on a NFS file
=system which is mounted across the net.  The symbolic link in /usr/lib
=for crontab had been removed and replaced with the real file.  This
=resulted in expire being run on more than one machine.  We would lose
=both the history file and the active file from time to time.  Fixing
=the symbolic link so that expire only ran on our news machine solved
=the problem.
=
=Hope this helps.
=
=-keith

A major round of applause for Keith, and a rasberry for me for not noticing
this earlier.
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