From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 8: 5:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4574B10 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:05:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by team7.cba.ualr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA18009; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:05:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:05:40 -0600 (CST) From: Joe X-Sender: joe@localhost To: John Purser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Low on Space Error message on new install In-Reply-To: <000801bf77c5$7ac72f40$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> 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 Tue, 15 Feb 2000, John Purser wrote: > > 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 > Looks like you have mgetty running. Do a "ps aux" and see what processes you have running. If any are mgetty then use the kill command. See "man kill" to learn how to use it. Hope this helps. -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message