Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 19:50, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Yes - if I'm not to be red-faced for evermore I need to write a bit for the TWiki. There are good install instructions specifically for Mandrake, which should be perfect if

Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-15 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:02:39 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've added a section to the PopFile page on the TWiki at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PopFile#Using_upgrade_to_change_to_an_orthodox_install Wonderful. Thanks. I'll try it out soon. :-) -- Chuck MATTSEN /

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Derek Jennings wrote: tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been 'cracked' by a spammer. Nah. :-) I took a look-see at Errors, and it was filled with nothing but DB

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 08:18, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 08:18, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: tail -n 100 /var/log/mail/errors will list the bottom 100 lines of the log. With that many error lines something is certainly wrong somewhere. Hopefully you have not been 'cracked' by a spammer. Nah. :-) I

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 09:31, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Well, I'm running a Cooker box, so it possibly wouldn't affect you anyway unless it was a security update or one to your flavor of ML. But, I think I spoke too soon as to the source of the

Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Anne Wilson wrote: In any case, things seem to be running normally again /with/ POPFile in place. I'm running an older version of PF (v0.20.1), as I believe you are, Anne (perhaps even older?), so I thought maybe an incompatibility had crept in, but apparently not. I updated a few days ago

Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 Feb 2005 16:07, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: I updated a few days ago to the latest version. There were some problems with the install caused by the fact that my previous install didn't put things where PopFile expected them, but once

Re: Updating POPFile (WAS: Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /)

2005-02-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Anne Wilson wrote: Yes - if I'm not to be red-faced for evermore I need to write a bit for the TWiki. There are good install instructions specifically for Mandrake, which should be perfect if it's a new install, but mine wasn't. In the next day or two I'll go through the thread where they

[newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through a fix for this, if possible. The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / partition. Haven't installed any programs in the interim

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 12 February 2005 13:57, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through a fix for this, if possible. The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my /

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Derek Jennings wrote: The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / partition --snip--8 If you have more than one partition 'df' is useful to find the partition that is filling up. Definitely / [I'm back in X, BTW ... I deleted the .gz'ed log backups, which

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Derek Jennings wrote: You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway (below). Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, it would appear

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:47:28 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /var/log/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ dir -print total 912908 232704 -rw--- 1 0 0 197636096 Feb 12 08:53 warnings 231214 -rw--- 1 0 0 539029504 Feb 12 08:53 errors 231768 -rw--- 1 0 0 197160960 Feb

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway (below). Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, it would appear that this could account for the missing nearly 1 gig, no?

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Stuart R. Fuller
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:47 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 12 February 2005 16:11, Paul wrote: Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:47:28 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /var/log/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ dir -print total 912908 232704 -rw--- 1 0 0 197636096 Feb 12 08:53 warnings 231214 -rw--- 1 0 0 539029504 Feb 12

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 12 February 2005 05:57 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd | appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through | a fix for this, if possible. | | The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my