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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: inbound news is suddenly failing
Message-ID: <1990Nov07.132936.6397@virtech.uucp>
Date: 7 Nov 90 13:29:36 GMT
References: <1990Nov7.041739.18690@unixland.uucp>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Nov7.041739.18690@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>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)
>
>Is this just a matter of tweaking the spacefor file?

More probably it is a problem with your ULIMIT.  Check the ulimit setting in
your KERNEL (the ulimit for login users in /etc/default/login doesn't matter 
in this case since the news processing is run out of cron).

See the FAQP for info on how to change your ULIMIT.


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