From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 7:40:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from happy.cow.org (happy.cow.org [198.88.20.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251C437B432 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ravi@localhost) by happy.cow.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) id fA8Fdh680041; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:39:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:39:43 -0500 From: ravi pina To: Jim Mock Cc: Mark Pude , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/ is full Message-ID: <20011108103943.U97368@happy.cow.org> Reply-To: ravi@cow.org References: <20011108092943.GA3609@helios.soupnazi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011108092943.GA3609@helios.soupnazi.org>; from mij@soupnazi.org on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:29:43AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:29:43AM -0800, Jim Mock said at one point in time: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 at 01:21:24 -0500, Mark Pude wrote: > > Hi-- > > I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.4. Recently I started getting a > > message that /var is full. I don't know why this has happened, but it > > prevents me from running certain programs that try and create files in > > /var/tmp. Simple programs like VI just won't save a file after I've > > modified it. I've looked through the documentation and have found > > nothing of use on this problem. If you could could help me, I would > > be pleased. > > How big is your /var? Have you looked to see what's filling it? My > guess is there's either a gigantic email attachment in your mailbox or > you've got a really small /var and lots of log files. > > - jim or lots of stale things in /var/tmp -r -- echo "send pgp key" | mail ravi@cow.org "God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean." -- Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message