From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 26 22:19:48 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA01857 for current-outgoing; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 22:19:48 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA01848 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 22:19:42 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA24597 for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 22:18:54 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199502270618.WAA24597@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Disappearing space in root fs. To: current@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 22:18:54 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1712 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Any YP NIS people care to comment ? Forwarded message: > From clary@elec.uq.oz.au Sun Feb 26 16:10:04 1995 > From: clary@elec.uq.oz.au (Clary Harridge) > Message-Id: <9502270009.AA19763@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> > Subject: Re: Disappearing root file system > To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 10:09:23 +1000 (EST) > In-Reply-To: <199502240745.XAA12715@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 23, 95 11:45:09 pm > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] > Content-Type: text > Content-Length: 977 > > > > > Hmm, > > > > could it be that some process (YP ?) has one of the /etc/*.db files > > open while the passwd gets changed ? > > (Just guessing here...) > > Strange you should say that Poul as I have seen yp type messages which I could > not explain. I am only running > > vipw => to add a user line > and > /usr/bin/passwd $name => to set a passwd > > so would not expect yppasswd to run. This would appear to be incorrect > behaviour if it does. > > I am not running any yp daemons. > > Is vipw or passwd somehow capable of trying to start yppasswd? > > I seem to lose about 300-400 blocks on / each time I run vipw + passwd. > > It seems that maybe the temporary file is unlinked but not finally removed. > > > > What does fsck tell you about the files ? > > > I will let you know later > > Thanks for your suggestions! > -- > regards Dept. of Electrical Engineering, > Clary Harridge University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072 > Phone: +61-7-365-3636 Fax: +61-7-365-4999 > INTERNET: clary@elec.uq.oz.au > -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.