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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: inbound news is suddenly failing
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.041739.18690@unixland.uucp>
Date: 7 Nov 90 04:17:39 GMT
Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
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I know this was discussed not too long ago, but I don't have the 
resources to archive old news (so the articles have been expired).
(Larry, was it you that had this problem?)

Yesterday my inbound news started failing (CNEWS).  My logfile is
filling up with the following messages:


relaynews: error writing `/usr/lib/news/history', probably the disk filled (File too large)
relaynews: error closing history file

I have "plenty" of disk space:

      /         :	Disk space:  18.14 MB of  28.92 MB available (62.76%).
      /usr      :	Disk space:  35.62 MB of 164.13 MB available (21.71%).
      /usr2     :	Disk space:  36.37 MB of  75.32 MB available (48.28%).
		  Total Disk Space:  90.14 MB of 268.38 MB available (33.59%).

(the news spool directory is in /usr).

Is this just a matter of tweaking the spacefor file?

Thanks in advance for your comments on this.


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