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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: CNews Problem on 386
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.165614.26682@mccc.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 91 16:56:14 GMT
Organization: The College On The Other Side of Route One
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I'm pulling my hair out over this one, folks!  After running Cnews
pretty successfully for a year or so an an AT&T 3B2, I replaced that
with an AT&T 6386 and recompiled CNews on it.

Now I regularly receive between 150-200 mail messages saying that
relaynews failed with status 176, the infamous "couldn't write
/usr/lib/news/history; file too large" message.  Now, the strange thing
is that (a) there is plenty of room in /usr and (b) my ulimit is around
10 Megs!  In fact, at one point I edited "newsrun" and added all the
"-d" options to relaynews, and it had no trouble in writing a 6+ MB
errlog to /usr/lib/news!!

And one more thin.  Today, I got 174 "failed" messages but when I looked
in $NEWS/in.coming/bad, do you think I found 174 files?  Nope -- just 9!

Any clues will be deeply appreciated.  :-(

Pete
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