On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > > >> my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists > > >> writing symlinking article file -- throttling". > > > > Try rebuilding your history file - IIRC this has worked for me (albeit > > under Solaris 2.5 rather than Linux). > > yep, that's part of how i fix it. i'd rather not have to do that - it > seems to happen once a week or more. > > i've edited my nightly scripts to run 'ctlinnd renumber' as well as > news.daily. Hopefully that will prevent the problem from occuring.
I had to do the same... it looked as though "ctlinnd renumber" was being executed from the news.daily, but as soon as I added it to my news crontab all my symlinking errors went away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix System Administrator -- Access Internet Communications for PGP key send mail with subject "send pgp key" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]