Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: History and active getting blown away? Message-ID: Date: 2 Mar 90 17:17:12 GMT References: Reply-To: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) Distribution: news Organization: Ferranti International Controls Lines: 5 Running out of disk space during an expire can trash your history file in Bnews. Being out of disk space in your spool partition at the start of an expire can trash your active file in Bnews. (at least some parts of news create temp files in the spool partition, including a copy of active) -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "Lack of skill dictates economy of style." -- Joey Ramone uunet!sugar!karl