From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 14:21:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb1-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E17C914D58 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 20788 invoked by uid 0); 27 Mar 1999 22:21:30 -0000 Received: from ens317-31.ece.utexas.edu (HELO ens317-31) (146.6.101.81) by umbs-smtp-1 with SMTP; 27 Mar 1999 22:21:30 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990327161941.009052b0@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 16:19:41 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Kevin Weiss Subject: re: a full /var system...thank you all Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just wanted to thank those who helped me with my full /var error. If anyone gets this error, try this...I hope it helps. This fixed MORE THAN ONE problem. 1) type "ps -ax" and prompt 2) kill any process that is still acting up (in my case, I had to "kill 146"...sendmail 3) type "df -k /var" and look at percentage of use (mine was 109%!!!) 4) find the file that is giving you problems (mine was mgetty.cuaa1, I can't remember exactly where it was in the /var directory at the moment) 5) make sure it is safe to delete the file (I did "vi mgetty.cuaa1", and noticed it was a bunch of calls to my serial port from modem, and vice versa) 6) delete the file (the file in my case was 28MB!!!) MENTAL NOTE: FreeBSD took next to NO TIME deleting this file...I'm impressed :-) 7) type "df -k /var" again, and notice the change (mine went down to 24%) 8) optional...reboot and see what else might be fixed In my case: -sendmail no longer gave me errors -no more "/var system full" errors -with netscape, I was previously getting an error "failed to load libX.so.6.o", or something to that effect, but I could FINALLY run "netscape &" again! -no more errors in VI when I did a :wq! (couldn't write to /var) Again, I hope this helps someone...anyone..out :-) Kevin Weiss kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu I use the FreeBSD OS...because reboots are for hardware upgrades :-) http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message