Problem with disappearing history file

[Jonathan Bayer]

In article <5849 at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, steve at 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.