Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:15:06 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> I have not been really been following this thread, but I do remember >> something about having to go and read root's messages. I got the >> impression that root's mail never gets read. If all root's mail is >> building up in his mail box, and it never gets cleaned out, it is >> probably a significant cause of the problem as well. (I wounder how many >> "running out of disk space" messages root has...) Part of the fix should >> probably include setting up an alias so root's mail go to a normal user. >> If it is not going to be read at all, then maybe forward it to >> /dev/null. :) > > Well, it's true, alas!, that I hardly ever think to read root's > mail; otoh, wouldn't it show up in baobab if root's mail were getting > bloated? That's how the bloat in /var/log/messages showed up. > > I'm online too much as it is; and most logs are nearly gibberish > to me. > Well, the logwatch messages are usually fairly clear. For example, here is the disk usage report for this machine:
--------------------- Disk Space Begin ------------------------
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
48G 8.5G 37G 19% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
141G 25G 109G 19% /home
/dev/sda3 82G 55G 23G 71% /shared
/dev/sda1 99M 19M 75M 21% /boot
/shared/Fedora-8.iso 3.3G 3.3G 0 100% /var/www/html/Fedora8
/shared/Fedora-9.iso 3.4G 3.4G 0 100% /var/www/html/Fedora9
/shared/Fedora-8.iso => 100% Used. Warning. Disk Filling up.
/shared/Fedora-9.iso => 100% Used. Warning. Disk Filling up.
---------------------- Disk Space End -------------------------
As you can see, it is complaining about the two loop-mounted .iso
images are out of free space. :) The rest of the sections are about
this clear. It is worth reading just for advanced working of
problems, or strange things going on.
Mikkel
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