On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 14:28 +0530, TAC Forums wrote: > Thank you for replying. > Its a system generated file that was occupying 22G of sapace. > > The file was .xsessions-error
Hope you saved a copy of the file to debug which X application was writing errors in to the file. For multi-user system, quota is helpful in that it would have limited the user with the X session to his/her quota and not allowed the file to grow to the extent of the /home fs. > Yes, i can open the mbox in a text editor > The data is not lost ..i do have it..but Kmail was unable to show > these messages. > What i did was, moved the Mail files to another dir. > Asked the user to open kmail, which created a fresh mail folder and > restored the in box back from the old dir. > It worked , and people can see there files now. Good for you. Glad things worked out. > What i wonder still is , how come the 22G file was there See comment above. -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Commitment, n.: Commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved, the pig was committed. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
