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. --- [log in to unmask] http://nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu/~atporter