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From: chuckie@panix.com (Alec H. Peterson)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Disk full errors
Date: 1 Oct 1995 21:41:01 -0400
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet and UNIX
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In article <44k8g8$oo7@luva.lb.bawue.de>,
Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de> wrote:
>>
>>sort: No space left on device
>
>Your partition where /tmp is, is full (inn sorts its history
>file and does other things in /tmp).
>You can however invoke news.daily telling it to use different
>tmp dirs.

Or, you can just edit news.daily to pass another option to sort
(specifically, -T <directory name> puts the sort tmp files in said
directory.  Those files can get quite big...)

Alec

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Alec Peterson                           Panix Public Access UNIX and Internet
chuckie@panix.com                       New York City, NY