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)? -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask] (internet) kacovert@miavx1 (bitnet)