Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!atc!hawkmoon!det From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Cnews: error writing history file -- help! Message-ID: <1991Mar1.062149.5151@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> Date: 1 Mar 91 06:21:49 GMT Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA Lines: 46 My ~news/errlog files are filling up with the following pairs of lines: relaynews: error writing `/usr/local/lib/news/Cnews/ctl/history', probably the disk filled relaynews: error closing history file (File too large) Besides the obvious, what is creating this message? I have enough disk space (i believe - unless it is an instantaneous surge of huge proportions!): hawkmoon$ dfspace / : Disk space: 2.56 MB of 14.27 MB available (17.94%). /usr : Disk space: 31.26 MB of 304.00 MB available (10.28%). /usr/bin : Disk space: 33.12 MB of 45.42 MB available (72.92%). Total Disk Space: 66.95 MB of 363.70 MB available (18.41%). My ulimit (and that of news) is pretty high: hawkmoon$ ulimit 65535 and the files look fine, sort of: hawkmoon$ ls -ls hist* 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 0 May 8 1990 hist 4129 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 2097152 Feb 28 11:30 history 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 0 May 8 1990 history.dat 1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 103 Mar 1 00:16 history.dir 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 0 May 8 1990 history.map 4130 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 2097541 Feb 27 01:57 history.o 431 -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 218068 Mar 1 00:16 history.pag So what is the problem here? Can the history files be growing past the 31MBs that i have left in /usr sometime during the night and i'm not noticicing or something? Actually, i wouldn't have even noticed a problem with this except that i have seen a *few* duplicate articles that should have been screened out and i just *happened* to peruse throught the errlog files (which i don't do too often). derek derek -- Derek "Tigger" Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG -- U of MN Women's Lax I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need your advice. -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots