From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 16:59:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFE916A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:59:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www6.web2010.com (www6.web2010.com [216.157.5.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B71743D4C for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:59:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MLandman@face2interface.com) Received: from Delliver.face2interface.com (zeyyphf@inoc202-203.veranet.net [216.238.202.203] (may be forged)) by www6.web2010.com (8.12.10/8.9.0) with ESMTP id j07Gx6Ff027853; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:59:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20050107115026.03103bd0@mail.face2interface.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:59:07 -0500 To: Peter Risdon From: Marty Landman In-Reply-To: <1105115565.708.165.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050106184116.01f2aa80@mail.face2interface.com> <20050107053638.GE27020@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107074632.03093500@mail.face2interface.com> <1105103142.708.136.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107091811.01f21c78@mail.face2interface.com> <1105108254.708.141.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107094403.030a3d38@mail.face2interface.com> <1105110920.708.152.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107102842.01f00398@mail.face2interface.com> <1105115565.708.165.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: clearing space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0000 At 11:32 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: >On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:41 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > > > > This has become a problem. Took a working keyboard from another box and it > > won't work. Unless by some weird chance I should reboot first. > > > >This happens, but don't just reboot. Peter, are you saying that it's possible my keyboard isn't working because the console hasn't been used for a very long time? If so, why isn't rebooting the easiest thing to do? > > Have one idea. Samba is set up and I can access from my windows > > workstation. If I change > >That won't work. I realized that after sending the msg. Because Samba doesn't override the permissions on / which are rwxr-xr-x, right? What about toor? Isn't that a fallback to root? I've never understood what that was about... you're likely getting a good idea of my skill level about now. :) >No - you ought to be able to su to root still. But how? %su - Password: su: no directory % >I checked this before the original answer because, although I wasn't >recommending your directory moves, just telling you how to avoid linking >individual binaries and files by doing the whole directory, I didn't even >want to do that if I >thought it would cause a prob like this. Hey it's all a learning experience. Fact is it's not even keeping me from doing the work I was originally out to do... don't need root for that. What clobbered the space on my / - besides having too small an allocation - was using Perl's cpan shell. By deleting /root/.cpan recursively I've fixed that issue. The greater issue is, as has been said, learning to do this on another directory like /usr. >If you can boot onto a FreeBSD CDROM it'd be easy to fix this. Can you? I still have the 4.8 mini-iso the system was installed with. But I need the console to do this right? Any way I can be sure that the ps2 port/mobo isn't what's really shot? Or does it even matter? Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search & Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal