Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:40:01 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Kevin Weiss/AUS/Lotus <Kevin_Weiss/AUS/Lotus@lotus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: full /var system? Message-ID: <36F7A7C1.7EAB70DE@uk.radan.com> References: <OF434B0709.E4BAE750-ON8625673D.0048EEAA@lotus.com>
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Kevin Weiss/AUS/Lotus wrote:
>
> I get a report of a full /var system upon reboot, but I sure as
> heck don't understand why or how.
>
> Anyway...whenever I reboot, when the system prompts me to login,
> I start to get the following message:
>
> Mar 22 17:54:35 freebsd sendmail [146]: NOQUEUE: low on space (have 0,
> SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in /var/spool/mqueue
>
> However, whenever I look in this directory...all I see are files like
> qfSAA00191, qfSAA00192, etc.
>
These are queued mail messages waiting to be sent
> Opening these files in VI just shows messages that root is sending to
> the system, primarily something about vi.recovery or something like that.
>
Actually, the system is sending them to root. These occur because vi
sessions are not ending gracefully (e.g rebooting without exiting vi).
When you log in as root you should see "You have mail". Type ``mail''
and delete the messages.
> I have to kill the process right after I log in, but do I have to this
> everytime? And what about my var, what on earth is making it "full" and
> "low on space"?
>
Possibly because, as well as the mail to root telling you about the
saved vi sessions, the file(s) that were being edited are saved in
saved in a directory called "vi.recover" somewhere in var
(/var/preserve/vi.recover I think, I'm not at home so I can't check).
Obviously if these are large files and/or there are a lot of them then
the relatively small /var partition will fill up quickly.
See ``man vi'' for details of how to recover these files, or just
delete them.
HTH
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