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From: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: (C News) limit filesize and inews
Message-ID: <27839439.1746@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 91 20:29:45 GMT
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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A user here attempted to cancel an article via rn and in so doing
invoked inews.  This user happened to have the .cshrc line:

limit filesize 2M

During the execution of the cancel, this is what he saw:

Canceling...
/usr/local/lib/news/inews: 29831 Exceeded file size limit
End of article 1198 (of 1202)--What next? [npq]  /usr/local/lib/news/inews: art
icle in /q2/uh/george/dead.article

Clearly, some manipulation within inews caused a file larger than 2M
to be created.  What I'm guessing is that the resource limit applies
to all files, whether they existed previously or not, and the
modification of the history database caused the resource limit
signal.  Given that this guess is correct, should relaynews ensure
that it's resource limitations are appropriate, or should this user
do something to make sure his limits are off while executing rn?  If
I'm wrong, does anyone have any ideas why this would happen?
-- 
Mark Nagel
UC Irvine Department of ICS   +----------------------------------------+
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