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From: richl@penguin.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Interesting bug...
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Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 02:36:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 28 02:36:07 1986
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The problems of SIGXFSZ and SIGXCPU are similar. Like SIGTSTP and SIGTTOU
when they first appeared, many programs aren't prepared to handle them.

Basically any program which opens a log file may succumb to this problem.
If the log file gets too big ... poof. We've run into this in the past
with both news and mail.

Simple fix, of course, is to ignore both signals. This does not require
root priviledges, but solves the problem nicely. (Unless you aren't a
source site, of course!)

Rick Lindsley