Problems starting inn

[Iain Conochie]

Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:

First off - thanks for all those who replied.

> On Sep 26, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Iain Conochie wrote:
> 
> 
>>Sep 26 14:55:12 pop-news innd: [ID 801587 news.crit] SERVER can't close
>>history /data/news/db/history: File too large
> 
> 
> How big -is- your history file?  Probably just reached 2 GB?

Natch :) You got it....

<snip>

> 
> If you hit the size limit of your file system, your longterm options 
> are to (1) adjust the size limit to allow bigger files, (2) reduce the 
> number of history file lines for articles currently in your spool, or 
> (3) reduce the number of history file lines for articles not in your 
> spool but that you've already seen and expired or rejected.
> 
> #1 can be done by building with large file support, although the 
> transition can be complicated.  #2 can be done by shortening expire.ctl 
> times for tradspool or reducing the size of CNFS buffers.  #3 can be 
> done by adjusting /expire/ in expire.ctl, although only with caution.

2 and 3 sounds the best for me at the moment. I realise that 1 is 
probably the best long term option, but tbh i think we may look at 
rebuilding this server anyway, so we can do this then. At the moment i 
just need a quick fix :)


What I have in expire.ctl is

/remember/:10


TBH, I am not the main admin for news at our site, and this is the first 
time I have really had to admin this software. What other parameters 
would be helpful for you guys?

Cheers

Iain



> 
> Telling us a little about how your articles are stored and what sort of 
> expiration paramters you prefer will help us guide you.
> 


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