Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:18:41 -0500 From: Jim C <jconner@enterit.com> To: <johnmpurser@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Low on Space Error message on new install Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000215091344.00a4fa58@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <000401bf77ba$3bf38260$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>
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generally, you want to make /var a lil larger than expected if you have a lot of mail going through the server, or if you have a lot of logging for the machine going on. if you check you will notice that your machine does a lot of process accounting and the like in the middle of the night and that it then emails root the information it gathered. There is also a lot of other stuff that uses /var. As a rule, I never make /var less than 50M and in some cases that is extremely too small. Now my /var is about 300M. This is a production server though and even in some cases that would be too small. It just depends on how you have the machine configured and what you are going use it for. my $.02 for what its worth... Jim At 05.40 15.02.00 -0800, 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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