Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:38:25 -0800 From: "John Purser" <johnmpurser@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Mgetty config file problem was - RE: Low on Space Error message on new install Message-ID: <000d01bf77d3$14e01da0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <000801bf77c5$7ac72f40$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>
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In case you missed it, I'm brand new to unix and FreeBSD. Okay, with the help of Joe and Jim C I've tracked the problem back one more step. What's going on is that the config file: usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/mgetty.config is being read as a config file even though it's just a sample config file with 364 lines of comments that apparently aren't commented out. During install I did select hylafax from the ports because eventually I want to use it but for now this machine isn't hooked up to anything and doesn't even have a modem. My questions are: Why does the process read it's config file as one giant error? Is the Config file written incorrectly and if so what should I do to fix it and does someone need to know in order to prevent future CD's from having this problems? This is a fax configuration file that is apparently read at 8:00 p.m. every night and when ever I reboot. How should I prevent this from being read? ps aux doesn't show mgetty running so what should I be looking for? What other questions should I be asking? Thanks for the help, John Purser -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of John Purser Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 7:01 AM To: 'Joe' Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Low on Space Error message on new install Okay, we got something here! The directory /var/log/mgetty.cuaa1 kind of stuck out like a sore thumb. The results of ls -l looked like: (permissions) 1 root wheel 96542720 Feb 14 20:03 mgetty.cuaa1 so I'm thinking this is the sucker that ate my disk. I opened it up and it's full of lines that start with: "Something foul in config line..." "(Keyword 'xxx' not found) where xxx varies with each line pair The first line of this log file says: "mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.21-Jul24 Many of the lines seem to refer to modems. I haven't configured any modems, nor have I configured any network information. So now where are we? John Purser -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 6:23 AM To: John Purser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Low on Space Error message on new install 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 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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