Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utstat!geoff
From: geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: relaynews failing with status 16 (full disk)
Message-ID: <1989Jul22.211235.17447@utstat.uucp>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
References: <NELSON.89Jul21223503@sun.clarkson.edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 89 21:12:35 GMT

With one exception (when the standard file descriptors are found to be
closed during startup), relaynews writes an error message on standard
error (a.k.a NEWSCTL/errlog) when it exits with non-zero status.  In the
case of a full disk, the name of the file being written when the disk
filled is included in the error message.  (Of course, the error message
may not be visible if NEWSCTL's file system just filled.)  Those of you
running System V will see an apparently-spurious full-disk complaint
when any file exceeds your ulimit; this most often hits the history and
log files.
-- 
Geoff Collyer		utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu
``... skill such as yours is evidence of a misspent youth.'' - Herbert Spencer