INN Problem with History File over 2GB
July 6th, 2009
If your INN distribution is not compiled with large file support (and your file system does not support files over 2GB) innd can die unexpectedly whenever your history file gets over 2GB. You can locate your history file under pathdb (/var/lib/news for me). If it is over 2GB you can change remember settings to a lower value to decrease the size of the history file.
To do so, edit your expire.ctl and change the remember setting to a lower value (5 days for me) and run makehistory and makedbz to rebuilt the files. Now, check your history file size and verify that it is below 2GB. You can run your innd properly now.
