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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.164424.26475@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan7.182907.13583@zoo.toronto.edu> <3480@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <663302894.24807@mindcraft.com> <1991Jan9.031902.22269@wolves.uucp>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 1991 16:44:24 GMT

In article <1991Jan9.031902.22269@wolves.uucp> ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
>... This "setnewsids" program is just the place to stick in a call
>to ulimit for system 5 (in fact, there is one there anyway!)  the only
>problem on this machine was that the ulimit set there was too low.

There isn't a ulimit() call in setnewsids as distributed; I'd assume it was
added by whoever you got your distribution from.
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