Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:23:03 -0600 (CST) From: Joe <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu> To: John Purser <johnmpurser@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Low on Space Error message on new install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002150818250.517-100000@njal.ualr.edu> In-Reply-To: <000401bf77ba$3bf38260$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>
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Do the following: cd /var du |more And scroll through and find out what is eating up your disk space. -Joe On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix. I installed it Sunday, got out my "Teach > Yourself..." book on Unix and started working exercises, no problems. This > morning I've got a continuous stream of error messages on the first virtual > terminal. There seem to be basically two messages with minor variation that > repeat over and over. They are: > > "sendmail[174]: NOQUE: low on space (have 0, STMP-DAEMON needs 101 in > /var/spool/mqueue" > > and > > "/kernel: pid NNNN (mgetty, uid 0 on /var: file system full" > NNNN can be replaced by 5488, 5493, 5489 and possibly others > "last message repeated XXX times" > XXX varies depending on the value of NNNN above. > > The relevant output of df: (4 gig SCSI disk) > /dev/da0s2e 99183 99134 -7885 109% /var > > ps didn't show any surprises. > > Obviously something ate up all the room in /var but I don't have the tools > yet to track down what's going on. I don't feel like I've given anyone > enough to information to help me out but I'm stuck on how to proceed. Any > help appreciated. > > I've installed FreeBSD 3.4 off the January 2000 CD's. I selected the X-User > Distribution. I set up one user account and the only installation problem I > had was configuring Xfree86. That errored out and I decided to put it off > until later. Other than that it was a smooth process. > > I look forward to hearing from the list, > > John Purser > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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