Kent Covert ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (Aar
on Porter) writes:
:
: >     Could it have been a disk space problem?  Rose was giving some
: > nasty errors concerning disk space on the console yesterday afternoon.
 
: I don't think so.  Disk space problems would cause NEWS to stop receiving
: new posts but should continue to let users read NEWS.  The problem the
: other night, though, was that NEWS stopped completely (the NEWS process
: died).  Unfortunately, it didn't leave any clues (log files, etc.) giving
: any indication as to why it stopped.  We came in yesterday morning and
: restarted it and it started fine and has been working smoothly ever since.
 
        It's not in the inittab, or checked by a cron process, or
anything like that?  Gak.
 
 
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