Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: inbound news is suddenly failing
Message-ID: <1990Nov08.130641.10029@virtech.uucp>
Date: 8 Nov 90 13:06:41 GMT
References: <1990Nov7.041739.18690@unixland.uucp> <1990Nov8.014303.24766@smsc.sony.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Nov8.014303.24766@smsc.sony.com> tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin Le) writes:
>   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.

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 and if you really
want a lower ulimit for users, set it in /etc/default/login

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