Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews Message-ID: <1991Jan9.010731.20306@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 9 Jan 91 01:07:31 GMT References: <1991Jan7.182907.13583@zoo.toronto.edu> <3480@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jan8.183027.10802@eci386.uucp> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 17 In article <1991Jan8.183027.10802@eci386.uucp> woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes: > >As for circumstances where the system-wide parameters are too low, or >the user reduces his own limits too low, then they get exactly what >they asked for, even if they didn't understand in the first place. It It is all well and good to say that a user sets his own limit too low, he gets what he ask for. But this doesn't help the news administrator who may have to deal with a locked up news system because some locks were left lying around in the failure. (So far this has only occurred once, but if it becomes a significant problem I will change my 'inews' so that it feeds the article to 'newsspool' instead of to 'relaynews'). -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940