From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 8 6:30:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A52C14F3F for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 06:30:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA23916; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:20:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01383; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:20:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id JAA07330; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:20:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:20:01 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199903081420.JAA07330@lakes.dignus.com> To: cezy@inext.ro, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urgent message In-Reply-To: <008001be696b$78898c50$09c0e6c1@inext.ro> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello, > > I'm just new on FreeBSD. I have an error message on my server : > > "/kernel pid:383 (exim), uid 3 on /var : file system full " > > What does it mean ?? Is the mail direcotry full of messages ??? > > Please help. > > Tibi Borzak > Internext > www.inext.ro > It means the program whose process ID was #383 (apparently the exim program) running as user id #3, tried to write somewhere in the /var file system... and that file system was full. So, you need to determine why that file system was full. (Your guess is that /var/mail is the culprit may be a good one.) Try the following and you'll see which directory in /var is using the most space: cd /var du -x . | sort -n - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message