Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:54:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onepine.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unbridled /var-us Growth Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990301085219.18088D-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990228143856.2683A-100000@localhost>
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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Christopher J. Booth wrote: > I have a file in /var, /var/log/mgetty.cuaa1, that is growing at an > incredible rate. At one point it had /var at 105% of capacity. I did a > cat /dev/null > /var/log/mgetty.cuaa1 > and /var was suddenly down to 6% again. But it will no doubt continue to > grow apace. How can I fix this? > > cuaa1 is my mouse, cuaa2 is my modem. See /etc/ttys and turn off cuaa1 > My other problem is that I have not been able to connect to a new ISP via > ppp from 2.2.8. I Was able to do so, and am sending this from the same > hardware (different partition & hard drive, of course) through linux, > which is able to connect. Since you were running mgetty on your mouse you probably are running it on your modem port too. See above. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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