Bob and Tim, Sorry this waited so long, but I had to work-around the issue and didn't get back to checking it out. I checked all the ulimit suggestions and all said unlimited. As I burn DVD iso's from this machine, I regularly generate > 2GB files with no difficulty.
I copied a version of sort from Fedora Core 4 (sort version 5.2.1) and it runs fine and it generated a 5.6 GB intermediate file with no problems. Let me know if there is any other information I can provide or if I should set up to get the source so I can debug it directly. I just downloaded FC5 ISO images and installed it without doing any compilations. Thanks, Keith Stanley On 4/12/2006 9:57 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tim Waugh wrote: > >>Another remote possibility is that a ulimit came into play, of >>course. > > > I don't think it is so remote of a possibility. I have definitely > seen ulimit be unintentionally set forcing this behavior. I think you > made an excellent suggestion! > > Keith Stanley wrote: > >>Under Fedora Core 5 (and probably other versions), the program sort >>(version 5.93) exits (without cleaning up temporary files) in any of the >>temporary files reach the size of 2 GB. > > > What does ulimit say? > > ulimit > > If it does not say "unlimited" then try setting it to unlimited and > trying again. > > ulimit unlimited > > You probably should check both the soft and hard limits. > > ulimit -Sf > ulimit -Hf > > Bob -- Keith R. Stanley IHN 7C-110 (630)-979-3416 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
