>We are setting up news server with dnews 5.4f12 for Solaris. Our
>problem is that we want to have items in our groups larger than 10mb,
>but changing the parameter item_max in the dnews.conf doesn't work at
>all. The server always reject the articles which are larger than 10mb.
>Is this a physical limitation or there is a way to change it.?
>
>Thanks in advance.
That limit is hard coded, we can make the hard limit setable and will do so
in the next build 5.5b4, the setting will be
real_max 20000000
We'll do the build later this week. Let me know if you don't see it by the
end of the week.
(The reason for this strange limit is we found people were sometimes typing
in silly numbers for item_max (like 100mb etc)
which can cause really nasty things to happen as it isn't just a simple
'limit' the number is used in many
other ways, however we should have added the over-ride at the same time)
ChrisP.
