Tim Waugh wrote: > Another remote possibility is that a ulimit came into play, of > course.
I don't think it is so remote of a possibility. I have definitely seen ulimit be unintentionally set forcing this behavior. I think you made an excellent suggestion! Keith Stanley wrote: > Under Fedora Core 5 (and probably other versions), the program sort > (version 5.93) exits (without cleaning up temporary files) in any of the > temporary files reach the size of 2 GB. What does ulimit say? ulimit If it does not say "unlimited" then try setting it to unlimited and trying again. ulimit unlimited You probably should check both the soft and hard limits. ulimit -Sf ulimit -Hf Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
