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- From: dnichols@shindig (DoN. Nichols)
- Subject: Re: uucp'ing files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.204114.15156@ceilidh.d-and-d.com>
- Keywords: 3b2, 3b1, uucp
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- References: <1i92sfINNiej@munnari.OZ.AU> <1993Jan5.094351.2626@austral.chi.il.us>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:41:14 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.094351.2626@austral.chi.il.us> rrezaian@austral.chi.il.us (Russell Rezaian) writes:
- >In article <1i92sfINNiej@munnari.OZ.AU> muller@munnari.OZ.AU (Paul Muller) writes:
- >>I have been trying to transfer a 1.4 MB file from the ATT3b1 (aka UNIX PC)
- >>to the 3b2/400 (BNU) both machines have oodles of HD space, but the file
- >>gets about 1 MB through then stops. uulog gives no sane reason why, but I am
- >>guessing a limit on the 3b2. I have tried modifying ULIMIT to 8192 and
- >>'touch'ing /etc/system, but the re-made unix has the same problem.
- >
- >Try doing a boot of "/etc/system" it sounds like your kernal isn't getting
- >rebuilt properly. To check, log in normall and type ulimit to see what the
- >current default is. I would wager it's still the "standard" 1 meg.
- >
- >Check your admin docs, there's actually more to regenerating the kernal
- >than simply touching /etc/system and doing a normal re-boot.
- >
- >As an aside, I find it really hard to believe that such a low limit was
- >chosen for the default. Someone obviously wasn't planning very well
- >there.
-
- Have you checked the /etc/rc* scripts, to make sure that it isn't
- being set there? I have seen other systems which do this, so all the kernel
- re-cofiguration in the world won't help if the system is being told to
- re-set the ulimit to 1MB every boot.
-
- Good Luck
- DoN.
-
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