On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Problem solved. I won't pretend to understand the hows or why's, but I finally
located this file:
/root/.xauth/refcount/rosco/bunyip/unix:0
With a 100meg file size. After deleting it I can now 'su' again.
rosco = my usual user name
bunyip = my machine's name
Thanks to all for the help...
> > ---------
> > su -
> > Password:
> > File size limit exceeded
> > --------
> Not sure what the cause is, but logging out, restarting the X
> /etc/security/limits.conf has a 100mb file size limit....
>
> # limit size of any one of users' files to 100mb
> * hard fsize 100000
-Ross
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