loosing files in news

[Karl Lehenbauer]

In article <62 at fleet.UUCP> mel at fleet.UUCP (mel) writes:
>I've suddenly began loosing my "active" and "history" files in the news
>directory "/usr/lib/news".  

I have seen active files disappear if you run out of space in your spool
partition while the active file is being updated (the temp file is
created in /usr/spool/news).

I have seen history files disappear if you run out of space on whatever
partition /usr/lib/news is in during an expire.

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