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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.230234.2115@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 8 Jan 91 23:02:34 GMT
References: <3464@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jan7.182907.13583@zoo.toronto.edu> <3480@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
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sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:

> Okey, WHAT IS THE SOLUTION THEN?
 
I have already suggested one in <1991Jan4.115409.741@robobar.co.uk>.
Note that C News's design of putting all the policy-crucial bits
in shell scripts makes the fix easy to implement without getting out
the C compiler.

> For even more fun, let's eliminate "change the system wide parameters"
> answer, too.

You *have* to raise ulimit for the news daemons at least.  Or else
*nothing* would work.

Stan:  you gotta realise that Henry's rhetoric is stronger than his bite.
He and Geoff have been known to put in (small) fixes for OS and
utility braindamage before.  I recall at least a getuid() in relaynews (?)
and a semicolon in one of inews's sed scripts that fixed things for Xenix
braindamage (so I could take them out of my own local modset)

It does seem to me that their design principles do result in programs
that are far easier to understand, and hence finding and fixing
the result of braindamage is *much* easier.  And when it comes
to the necessary simplification for publishing on netnews....

Claimer: I use both rn as maintained by Stan, and C News.  I am grateful to,
         and have great respect for both teams.
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