From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 16: 4:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04D315484 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 16:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990417230342.KCNQ5596385.mta1-rme@wocker>; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 11:03:42 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Mike Jennings Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 11:02:03 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: freebsd Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990417224408.6AE3C14FAA@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990417230342.KCNQ5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17 Apr 99, at 18:43, Mike Jennings wrote: > Did I tell you I printed out the first 160 pages of the handbook to give > me some guidelines. Tried 3 times to rebuild the kernel, with a little > better success each time, but it still does not fully compile. We can help, but only if we know what the problem is. > Anyway, before I lay $109.00 CDN for the one and only Complete FreeBSD > Reference book, I would like to get this OS up and working. Is there any > other sources for information on FreeBSD! Many, some of which are listed on the FreeBSD site at http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#web > I would really like to get this OS up and running. I do not easily give > up, but I would like to get my server up and running again. We'll help, but we don't know what the problem is. But remember to keep all msgs cc'd to the list. > ps I selected the Auto configuration for my 1.6Gb partition and since > trying to rebuild the kernel I seem to have filled the /var directory to > 101%. Any ideas about that. the /var is currently set to 80Mb. look in /var/log and see what's accumulated there for starters. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message