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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
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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
 Dana Point Communications, Inc.                            dan@dpcsys.com
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