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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!malgudi.oar.net!nt.colmicrosys.com!usenet From: jfabin@enet.colmicrosys.com (James at eNET) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: tin and trn problems under BSDI 2.0 Date: 18 Jul 1995 11:23:21 GMT Organization: Columbus Micro Systems eNET Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3ug5j9$lua@nt.colmicrosys.com> References: <3u22f7$sfu@xymox.dsw.com> Reply-To: jfabin@ee.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.133.101.8 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.2 In article <3u22f7$sfu@xymox.dsw.com>, pete@dsw.dsw.com says... > >I just got my news server running (on another machine) and I'm trying to >get trn and tin to work from my BSDI 2.0 machine. > >When I run "tin -r" as a non-root user, it bombs after reading active >because there is not enough memory. As root, it works fine. The weird >thing is that ulimit -a returns the same things for root as it does for >non-root users. But maybe root isn't subject to those limitations. > >Also, trn apparently doesn't recognize NNTPSERVER. Do I need to get >another version of trn (where?) or is there some switch I can throw to >make it work "out of the box"? > >Thanks. >Pete Kruckenberg >pete@dsw.com > Use rtin instead of tin -r, it'll work for ya.