dhb@rayssd.UUCP (11/09/83)
We just ran into a problem with "inews" that was indirectly caused by the fact that I was away for a week or so. We are running 4.1BSD and have "resource limitations" enabled. The problem we had was that we have the filesize limit set to 2 Mb and the log file became larger than that. What made the situation more puzzling was that it only affected users trying to post articles or followups and did not affect our normal news feed. It turned out that our news feed ran as "root" and was thus not affected by the filesize limit. The cure is quite simple. We are setting up something to run once a week zero out the log file. Another way to attack the problem would be to put a call to "vlimit" in inews. Now for my question (there's always a question). Is the log file ever used for anything? Is there any reason why I shouldn't just null it out once a week? (I actually plan to copy it and then null it.) I don't remember seeing anything in the installation manual but it's been a while and I don't have the manual handy. -- Dave Brierley Raytheon Co.; Portsmouth RI; (401)-847-8000 x4073 ...!decvax!brunix!rayssd!dhb ...!allegra!rayssd!dhb ...!linus!rayssd!dhb
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (11/10/83)
The log file is there for people to look at it, when something goes wrong or you want to check that a certain article made it through. No program reads it. On cbosgd, each week we move log to olog and create a new log. This way we always have at least 1 week of log around.