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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2000 05:40:33 -0800
From:      "John Purser" <johnmpurser@home.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Low on Space Error message on new install
Message-ID:  <000401bf77ba$3bf38260$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>

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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





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