Xref: utzoo news.admin:3541 news.software.b:1643 news.sysadmin:1001 comp.unix.questions:9431 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,news.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Alzheimer's Syndrome Message-ID: <12608@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 88 17:40:21 GMT References: <576@mbph.UUCP> <406@amyerg.UUCP> <10611@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 16 As quoted from <10611@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> by smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven Bellovin[jsw]): +--------------- | Check /usr/spool/news/.rnews for zillions of 0-length files.... +--------------- Nope. There's a bug in the System V in-core inode caching code which causes the system to think it's out of inodes when all it has to do is start at the top of the cache linked list. The details can no doubt be supplied by some unix.wizard out there, including a patch which you can apply if you have source or mail to your vendor if you don't. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc "Don't discount flying pigs before you have good air defense." -- jvh@clinet.FI