CNEWS on ESIX system

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Sep23.025130.2076 at world.std.com> heiser at world.std.com (Bill Heiser) writes:
>... I get a mail message saying "inbound news discarded due to lack
>of disk space".   
>
>anyone else have any similar problem on an Esix system?  I hacked the
>spacefor script in /usr/lib/newsbin to look at field #4, line #1 for the
>number of blocks, but that didn't help the situation.

Looks like you need to do some more work on spacefor (or else, just
possibly, you are very short on disk space).  Try running spacefor by
hand, with something like "spacefor 10000 incoming" (that is, "how many
10000-byte lumps of incoming news will fit?").  If it's coming out with
"0", it genuinely thinks you don't have enough space.  Either it's
picking up the wrong data from df, or its threshold is set too high
for your system.

>Thanks in advance -- quick replies would be most appreciated, as I'm
>sure my newshost doesn't appreciate all these news batches being returned...

Not a problem; "discarded" *means* "discarded".  It doesn't return them.
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