Here is what I see in ri.log Wed May 27 00:47:18 2009 # [23125] Aborting, got a signal Wed May 27 00:47:19 2009 + open /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/history, perm: 33554433 (write) Wed May 27 00:47:19 2009 # Cannot open file /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/history: Inappropriate ioctl for device Logging region out of memo ry; you may need to increase its size Wed May 27 00:47:19 2009 + open /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/history, perm: 33554433 (write) Wed May 27 00:47:19 2009 # Cannot open file /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/history: Inappropriate ioctl for device Logging region out of memo ry; you may need to increase its size Wed May 27 00:47:19 2009 + open /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/records, perm: 33554433 (write) Wed May 27 00:47:19 2009 # Cannot open file /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/records: Inappropriate ioctl for device Logging region out of memo ry; you may need to increase its size Wed May 27 00:49:56 2009 + open /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/history, perm: 33554433 (write) Wed May 27 00:49:56 2009 # Cannot open file /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/history: Inappropriate ioctl for device Logging region out of memo ry; you may need to increase its size Wed May 27 00:49:56 2009 + open /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/files, perm: 33554433 (write) Wed May 27 00:49:56 2009 # Cannot open file /home/aras/acis/RI/data/ACIS/files: Inappropriate ioctl for device Logging region out of memory ; you may need to increase its size Other files are not reported to have a problem. But updating seems to continue ras@nebka:~/acis/RI/data/RePEc$ ls -lt total 16532048 -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras 110886912 2009-05-26 02:38 files -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras 13788655616 2009-05-26 02:38 history -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras 3012087808 2009-05-26 02:38 records -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras 630784 2009-05-26 02:37 conflicts aras@nebka:~/acis/RI/data/RePEc$ cd .. aras@nebka:~/acis/RI/data$ cd ACIS/ aras@nebka:~/acis/RI/data/ACIS$ ls -lt total 2889060 -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras 11395072 2009-05-27 04:55 files -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras 1467482112 2009-05-27 04:55 history -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras 1476538368 2009-05-27 04:55 records -rw-r--r-- 1 aras aras 73728 2009-05-26 18:20 conflicts Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel new phone: +7 913 748 8056 skype: thomaskrichel