From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 7: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1991843E0 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:01:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from C37259A ([24.9.57.64]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000215150105.XZQB8819.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C37259A>; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:01:05 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: "'Joe'" Cc: Subject: RE: Low on Space Error message on new install Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:01:01 -0800 Message-ID: <000801bf77c5$7ac72f40$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, we got something here! The directory /var/log/mgetty.cuaa1 kind of stuck out like a sore thumb. The results of ls -l looked like: (permissions) 1 root wheel 96542720 Feb 14 20:03 mgetty.cuaa1 so I'm thinking this is the sucker that ate my disk. I opened it up and it's full of lines that start with: "Something foul in config line..." "(Keyword 'xxx' not found) where xxx varies with each line pair The first line of this log file says: "mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.21-Jul24 Many of the lines seem to refer to modems. I haven't configured any modems, nor have I configured any network information. So now where are we? John Purser -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 6:23 AM To: John Purser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Low on Space Error message on new install Do the following: cd /var du |more And scroll through and find out what is eating up your disk space. -Joe On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix. I installed it Sunday, got out my "Teach > Yourself..." book on Unix and started working exercises, no problems. This > morning I've got a continuous stream of error messages on the first virtual > terminal. There seem to be basically two messages with minor variation that > repeat over and over. They are: > > "sendmail[174]: NOQUE: low on space (have 0, STMP-DAEMON needs 101 in > /var/spool/mqueue" > > and > > "/kernel: pid NNNN (mgetty, uid 0 on /var: file system full" > NNNN can be replaced by 5488, 5493, 5489 and possibly others > "last message repeated XXX times" > XXX varies depending on the value of NNNN above. > > The relevant output of df: (4 gig SCSI disk) > /dev/da0s2e 99183 99134 -7885 109% /var > > ps didn't show any surprises. > > Obviously something ate up all the room in /var but I don't have the tools > yet to track down what's going on. I don't feel like I've given anyone > enough to information to help me out but I'm stuck on how to proceed. Any > help appreciated. > > I've installed FreeBSD 3.4 off the January 2000 CD's. I selected the X-User > Distribution. I set up one user account and the only installation problem I > had was configuring Xfree86. That errored out and I decided to put it off > until later. Other than that it was a smooth process. > > I look forward to hearing from the list, > > John Purser > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message