Length of buffers for cnfs?

[Russ Allbery]

Josh Higham <news at bigsky.net> writes:

> Correct; I assumed and/or believed that if the size listed in cycbuff.conf
> was smaller then the filesize, it would be ok, so listing 1024000 instead of
> 1048576 would be fine.

> So I recreated the buffers, and changed cycbuff.conf:

> cycbuff:01:/var/spool/news/buffers/buffer01:2097152
> -rw-r--r--   1 news     news     2097152000 Nov 10 14:45 buffer01

> However, I'm getting an error:

> Nov 10 15:02:46 news innfeed[373]: CNFS-sm: CNFSflushhead: write failed (-1
> bytes): Bad file descriptor
> Nov 10 15:02:46 news innfeed[373]: SM storage method 'cnfs' failed
> initialization
> Nov 10 15:02:46 news innfeed[373]: SM one or more storage methods failed
> initialization
> Nov 10 15:02:46 news innfeed[373]: Storage manager initialization failed
> Nov 10 15:02:47 news innd: CNFS-sm: CNFSinitdisks: mmap for
> /var/spool/news/buffers/buffer01 offset 0 len -507904 failed: Invalid
> argument

Reduce the size slightly; it looks like you have an INN compiled without
large file support, which means you need a buffer smaller than 2GB.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>