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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.oz.au!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!hookup!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!panix!not-for-mail From: chuckie@panix.com (Alec H. Peterson) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Disk full errors Date: 1 Oct 1995 21:41:01 -0400 Organization: Panix Public Access Internet and UNIX Lines: 19 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <44nfvd$9bu@panix4.panix.com> References: <davidp-2909951437400001@mac219.admin.biola.edu> <44k8g8$oo7@luva.lb.bawue.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix4.panix.com Keywords: inn news bsdi Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nntp:16166 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1013 In article <44k8g8$oo7@luva.lb.bawue.de>, Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de> wrote: >> >>sort: No space left on device > >Your partition where /tmp is, is full (inn sorts its history >file and does other things in /tmp). >You can however invoke news.daily telling it to use different >tmp dirs. Or, you can just edit news.daily to pass another option to sort (specifically, -T <directory name> puts the sort tmp files in said directory. Those files can get quite big...) Alec -- Alec Peterson Panix Public Access UNIX and Internet chuckie@panix.com New York City, NY