geordie wrote:
>
> hi
>
> i recently installed slink on a compaq 486 laptop w/ 4 megs ram and a 100
> meg hdd. dselect downloaded a _few_ packages for me, but during the
> installation process the disk became full. i tried using dselect to
> remove unwanted packages but it doesn't work beyond the first menu
> anymore. when i try to get to 'select' it returns "dselect: failed to
> write status record about 'lib-apache-mode-auth-sys' to
> '/var/log/dpkg/status': No space left on device"
>
> this sucks
>
> i've tried w/out success to find the place where all the stuff dselect
> downloaded is stored so i could just remove it and start again.
>
> i'm thinking about reinstalling
>
> any less drastic solutions?
>
In addition to what's been said, check out the old log files in
/var/log. Surely there's some of them you can get rid of...
--
... if the problem persists ... get a 3.5 ft ... length of sucker rod
and have a chat with the user in question.
-- Linux System Administration,
SYSLOGD (8), page 7
(Dealing with DOS attacks exploiting SYSLOGD)