In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (March Hare) writes:
> Very strange.  I received the error that news cannot write the NEWSRC file,
> possible disk quota exceeded.  I just recently cleaned out my login
> directory because of this error before.  Then, I did a show quota:
>
> MIAVX1> $ cd
> MIAVX1> $ show quota
> User [SAN,JDCARMACK] has 17 blocks used, 2983
> available,  of 3000 authorized and permitted overdraft of 500 blocks on
> SYS_USERS
> MIAVX1> $ cd temp
> MIAVX1> $ show quota  User [SAN,JDCARMACK] has 19910
> blocks used, 90 available,
>
> Is it trying to write to the ACQUIRE_DIR?  Isn't that a little silly?
 
While NEWS doesn't write to the TEMP directory, it may very well write to
SYS$SCRATCH or to the current directory.  What is your current directory?
What is the logical SYS$SCRATCH pointing to (Issue a SHOW LOG SYS$SCRATCH)?
 
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