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From: jfabin@enet.colmicrosys.com (James at eNET)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: tin and trn problems under BSDI 2.0
Date: 18 Jul 1995 11:23:21 GMT
Organization: Columbus Micro Systems eNET
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In article <3u22f7$sfu@xymox.dsw.com>, pete@dsw.dsw.com says...
>
>I just got my news server running (on another machine) and I'm trying to 
>get trn and tin to work from my BSDI 2.0 machine.
>
>When I run "tin -r" as a non-root user, it bombs after reading active 
>because there is not enough memory. As root, it works fine. The weird 
>thing is that ulimit -a returns the same things for root as it does for 
>non-root users. But maybe root isn't subject to those limitations.
>
>Also, trn apparently doesn't recognize NNTPSERVER. Do I need to get 
>another version of trn (where?) or is there some switch I can throw to 
>make it work "out of the box"?
>
>Thanks.
>Pete Kruckenberg
>pete@dsw.com
>

Use rtin instead of tin -r, it'll work for ya.