Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews: error writing history file -- help!
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.163207.27948@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Mar1.062149.5151@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 16:32:07 GMT

In article <1991Mar1.062149.5151@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>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? ...

The "probably the disk filled" is actually just a random stab in the dark,
not based on any solid information; Geoff really should think about
changing that message, or at least changing "probably" to "perhaps".

However, "File too large" in the close message is much more definitive.
That means your system really is complaining about a file being too
large, and that probably means you've got a problem with ulimit.

>4129 -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     2097152 Feb 28 11:30 history

In case it escaped your attention, 2097152 is *exactly* two megabytes...
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