inbound news is suddenly failing

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Nov8.014303.24766 at smsc.sony.com> tin at smsc.sony.com (Tin Le) writes:
>   The error mesg: "(File too large)" should be a good clue.  It's your
>   ulimit that is too low.  Add a "ulimit 5000;" to your crontab where you
>   run the news programs.

A. this won't work if the news programs are run by a non-root user, since
only root can up it's ulimit.

B. Even if this did work, it is short sighted work-around.  Fix the ULIMIT
in the kernel which will work for all cron programs and if you really
want a lower ulimit for users, set it in /etc/default/login

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