On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:41:46 -0600, Scout <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Pertinent info would be that it occurred on a site that had
>experienced a variety of file damage including some garbaged
>records in the PERMVARS file.
>
>SWAG: I'd suspect that PERMVARS was tracking when digests were
>last issued so,

This is correct.  i.e. the Digest "count" is maintained in PERMVARS, so loss
of or damage to the file would result in the count being lost.