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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 11:58:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To: "Jay M. Richmond" <jayrich@room101.sysc.com>
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Subject: Re: tin not working in 2.2-stable
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On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Jay M. Richmond wrote:

  Please don't send to so many mailing lists.

> Hello,
> I get the following message when running tin under the latest 2.2-stable.
> jayrich@room101$ tin -r
> tin 1.3 unoff BETA release 970424 [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-97 Iain Lea.
> Reading config file...
> Connecting to newshost.cs.rose-hulman.edu... 
> Reading groups from active file...\tin: memory exhausted trying to
> allocate 656064 bytes in file ././memory.c line 120
> 
> According to top there's plenty of memory available.

  Yes, but is your user allowed to access it?  Unpriviledged users just
can't go around allocating all available memory.  See /etc/login.conf

Tom