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[Katsuhiro Kondou]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004251332490.25568-100000 at daneel.cse.psu.edu>,
	Eric Prescott <prescott at cse.psu.edu> wrote;

} I then created the cycbuffs at /var/news/spool/cycbuffs/
} -rw-rw-r--   1 news     1024000000 Apr  5 17:06 buf1
} -rw-rw-r--   1 news     1024000000 Apr  5 17:06 buf2
} -rw-rw-r--   1 news     1024000000 Apr  5 17:06 buf3
} -rw-rw-r--   1 news     1024000000 Apr  5 17:06 buf4
:
} My /var/news/etc/cycbuff.conf is setup very standard...
} cycbuff:buf1:/var/news/spool/cycbuffs/buf1:1024000000
} cycbuff:buf2:/var/news/spool/cycbuffs/buf2:1024000000
} cycbuff:buf3:/var/news/spool/cycbuffs/buf3:1024000000
} cycbuff:buf4:/var/news/spool/cycbuffs/buf4:1024000000

See cycbuff.conf(5);

       be within 63 letters.  ``Buffer_size'' is  the  length  of
       buffer  file  in  kilobytes in decimal (1KB = 1024 bytes).
       If the ``file_name'' is not a  special  device,  the  file
       should be buffer_size * 1024 bytes.

Your setting shows each buffer is 1TB!.  This gives

} Apr  6 09:44:44 lepidopteran.cse.psu.edu makehistory[22277]:
}  Reading config from /var/news/etc/inn.conf
}  Apr  6 09:44:44 lepidopteran.cse.psu.edu makehistory[22277]:
}  CNFS-sm: CNFSinitdisks: mmap for /var/news/spool/cycbuffs/buf70 offset 0
} len 0 failed: Not
}  enough space

those errors.
-- 
Katsuhiro Kondou