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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Problem with disappearing history file
Summary: don't run multiple expires
Message-ID: <264@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 17:31:49 GMT
References: <5849@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
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Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <5849@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) writes:
> 
> 	Has anyone had any problems with a history file in 2.11.14 that decides
> to disappear occasionally???  We've had this problem occur enough times that I
> am sure it's not related to running out of disk space or other hardware-related
> problems.  When this happens, I get a message (as news) saying something to the
> effect of:
> 
> 	"There was a problem with the history file.  It has been fixed."


We had a problem like this a while ago.  It turned out that we were
running 2 expires at the same time, which got both of them very
confused and made the history file disappear occasionally.

Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.