Re: [newbie] su problem

2001-06-27 Thread Ross Slade
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

Re: [newbie] su problem

2001-06-27 Thread Ross Slade
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Ross Slade 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

Re: [newbie] su problem

2001-06-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 07:58, Ross Slade wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Ross Slade 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

Re: [newbie] su problem

2001-06-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 25 June 2001 09:30 pm, Ross Slade wrote: I've neved seen this before... - su - Password: File size limit exceeded I got the same error recently just after upgrading KDE2alpha2 rpms. I errantly quit the Xterm I was using to upgrade the rpms, and when I

Re: [newbie] su problem

2001-06-26 Thread Dennis M.
On Monday 25 June 2001 23:37, you wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dennis M. wrote: On Monday 25 June 2001 22:30, you wrote: I've neved seen this before... - su - Password: File size limit exceeded -Ross snip Sorry, but I'm missing something here. I'm