From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 8:53:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5671542B for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:53:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA23621; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:54:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:54:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: "Christopher J. Booth" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unbridled /var-us Growth In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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