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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: inbound news is suddenly failing
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.090558.28179@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 9 Nov 90 09:05:58 GMT
References: <1990Nov7.041739.18690@unixland.uucp> <1990Nov8.014303.24766@smsc.sony.com> <1990Nov08.130641.10029@virtech.uucp>
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>  == cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>> == tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin Le) writes:

>>   Add a "ulimit 5000;" to your crontab where you
>>   run the news programs.

> A. this won't work if the news programs are run by a non-root user, since
> only root can up it's ulimit.

> B. Even if this did work, it is short sighted work-around.  Fix the ULIMIT
> in the kernel which will work for all cron programs

Or if you don't want to mess around with the kernel, you could always
do
	( ulimit <LOTS> ; exec /etc/cron )

instead of plain /etc/cron in the appropriate /etc/rc<whatever> file.
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