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From: tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin Le)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: inbound news is suddenly failing
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.014303.24766@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 8 Nov 90 01:43:03 GMT
References: <1990Nov7.041739.18690@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
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In article <1990Nov7.041739.18690@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>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

   The error mesg: "(File too large)" should be a good clue.  It's your
   ulimit that is too low.  Add a "ulimit 5000;" to your crontab where you
   run the news programs.

-- Tin

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