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From: Ian Pallfreeman <ip@albatross.mcc.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: make mfs /tmp bigger?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971110182222.3657B-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> from Nadav Eiron at "Nov 10, 97 06:27:24 pm"
To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:04:59 +0000 (GMT)
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> You didn't specify the version, but the problem is with recent 2.2 code 
> (from about August and later). It has to do with login.conf. The mfs 
> daemon runs under login class "daemon", which, by default, has a datasize 
> limit of 32MB. Increase the limits to something more reasonable, or patch 
> the mfs code to disregard the limits when running as root. For more info, 
> see the GNATS report of this problem (misc/4576)

Oh bugger. Bitten by login.conf AGAIN! Should've thought of that...

Sorted (copied my usual "unlimited for everything" across). Many thanks.

Ian.