Further to the contributions re malloc stopping news expiry the reported
fix of upping the datasize to unlimited and running expire manually is
fine. What we would like to do now is change the default shell or system
limits permanently.
As news.daily has to run as user "news" and only root has the authority to
issue an increase in the datasize limit I have not found a way of getting
the cron job which is run as news to have root raise the limit first.
Manually if you issue as root with yr shell as tcsh or csh
limit datasize unlimited
su news
news.daily expireover lowmark
then news inherits the increased datasize and runs. I have not been able
to wrap it so it both raises the limit and runs as su news undr cron.
The obvious way round this is to change the system or shell limits but I
have read every doc I can find and havent seen how to do this in 3.2c. I
understand that sysconfigtab can be used in 4 but not 3.2c.
Anybody know how to change these limits permanently please?
stuart mckenzie
Received on Mon Oct 12 1998 - 15:24:44 NZDT