Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 22:47, Azrael wrote: > Michael Adams wrote: > >On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:33, Azrael wrote: > >>two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) > >> > >>many thanks!! > > > >Azrael, I would have a look in the syslog and see what the offender was/is > >(it is just a tex

Re: DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Azrael
John Richard Smith wrote: >On Wednesday 05 June 2002 15:19, you wrote: > > >> John Richard Smith wrote: >> >> >>>On Wednesday 05 June 2002 14:53, you wrote: >>> >>> That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. Azrael wrote: >I have the following p

Re: DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 15:19, you wrote: > John Richard Smith wrote: > >On Wednesday 05 June 2002 14:53, you wrote: > >>That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. > >> > >>Azrael wrote: > >>>I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't > >>>play encrypted dvds. What am I

Re: DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 14:53, you wrote: > That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. > > Azrael wrote: > > I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't > > play encrypted dvds. What am I doing wrong? (I assume it's always > > my fault - and am hardly ever wrong there). > >

DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Azrael
That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. Azrael wrote: > I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't play > encrypted dvds. What am I doing wrong? (I assume it's always my fault > - and am hardly ever wrong there). > > package libcss-0.1.0-5 is already installed > packa

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Azrael
I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't play encrypted dvds. What am I doing wrong? (I assume it's always my fault - and am hardly ever wrong there). package libcss-0.1.0-5 is already installed package libdvdcss2-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdcss2-devel-1.2

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Azrael
Michael Adams wrote: >On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:33, Azrael wrote: > > >>two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) >> >>many thanks!! >> >> > >Azrael, I would have a look in the syslog and see what the offender was/is >(it is just a text file). Something must be putting out

RE: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Franki
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dfox Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2002 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] disk space advice > /dev/hdb3 12G 11G 1.5G 88% / > /dev/hdb6 2.0G 868M 1.1G 44% /home > > which seems fine... but nearly every day '

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:33, Azrael wrote: > two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) > > many thanks!! Azrael, I would have a look in the syslog and see what the offender was/is (it is just a text file). Something must be putting out lots of error messages to cause syslog to

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-04 Thread dfox
> /dev/hdb3 12G 11G 1.5G 88% / > /dev/hdb6 2.0G 868M 1.1G 44% /home > > which seems fine... but nearly every day '/' gets up to 100% .. and can > be brought down to 88% by deleting /var/log/syslog .. meaning this log > file gets to about 1.5G in size. Hmm. I we

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-04 Thread Azrael
two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) many thanks!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-04 Thread Franki
can't you just edit the cron logrotate setup to roll it over daily instead of weekly?? thats what I did with one of my 7.2 boxs that was hosting blocks of IP's and was filling fast.. worked great.. was awhile ago, but if I remember.. I went into /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and changed weekly to dail

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-04 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 03:55 pm, Azrael wrote: > I need to ask for some advice :) > > df -h gives me: > > /dev/hdb3 12G 11G 1.5G 88% / > /dev/hdb6 2.0G 868M 1.1G 44% /home > > which seems fine... but nearly every day '/' gets up to 100% .. and can > be brought down