From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 29 19:17:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20784 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop02.globecomm.net (pop02.globecomm.net [206.253.129.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20778 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:16:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (r21.bfm.org [208.18.213.117]) by pop02.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id WAA03131; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:16:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19981229211614.0088ab80@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: Stanislav@mail.bfm.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:16:14 -0600 To: Ben Smithurst From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: broken pipe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981229230652.B17162@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.6.32.19981229101429.008a44c0@mail.bfm.org> <3.0.6.32.19981229101429.008a44c0@mail.bfm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 23:06 29-12-1998 +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: >df reports free space available to normal users. Root however can use >more than this, so even if df reports your disk as 100% full, root can >still create more files. Interesting. Where do they get stored? (I admit I have no idea how Unix stores files; I am quite familiar with the FAT system, but all I know about Unix way is that it is different.) I really need to get another hard disk, install the sources, and learn from them. What a wonderful resource that must be! >> 2. How do I tell the daemons to quit sending all those messages? I can read >> them the first time they send them, why do they keep repeating them? > >Which daemon(s) do you mean, specifically? Whatever is being loaded at boot time. The messages were scrolling so fast, I could only get the general idea they were complaining about insufficient disk space. I am new to this. And of course, since I reinstalled, there are no logs. So, I don't know which ones. My question was (meant to be) generic: When I get so many messages, is there some key I can hit to stop the messages so I can get to the prompt and type a command and see what it does? That is basically what I am asking. Come to think of it, I did not even get a chance to log on. If it did print "login:" it scrolled off so fast that I did not see it. I guess I could have tried switching to another console, but it did not occur to me at the time. Thanks for your reply, Adam ===> Whiz Kid Technomagic <=== http://www.whizkidtech.net/ The resource center for webmasters and web users Winner of the Starting Point Hot Site award Winner of the Lighthouse Award Home of the Web Magic Award To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message