Hello Larry,
Sorry about t he delay in responding, We have been without power for the
last 2 days due to Gabrielle. Anyway, yes I was able to get into my machine
after I freed up some space in /var but no, I haven't been able to get
win4lin installed. When I was first able to get into the machine, the
installer didn't start automatically so I went into the win4lin_installer
folder and manually started it. I was presented with a screen that said,
"You don't appear to be running a win4lin enabled kernel. Reboot into the
win4lin enabled kernel to install your windows programs." At this pointI
reboot and go through the same process of getting into the installer and end
up with the same result. I have tried uninstalling using rpm -e win4lin and
rpm -e kernel-win4lin and received the response that the packages are not
installed. Thein I manually went in and removed all instances of win4lin
that were listed in the uninstall instructions. The only thing that I did
not remove was the package that I downloaded. I try installing from that
package using tar xzvf netraverse_installer.tgz and it takes me back to the
same screen that I listed above about not being in the win4lin kernel so I
go through the whole process again to no avail.
As for your other question, /var is on hda7 and the total space on that
partition is 251M. Space available is 182M. I have cut the amount of logs
that are kept to 2 ant the output of /etc/crontab is
{snip}
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
The output of /etc/cron.daily/logrotate is
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logratate.conf
This machine, once in place, will run continuously unless there is an
electrical storm that forces my client to shut down.
Sorry for the extended length of this message as I wanted to cover all
areas. Any further suggestions for getting win4lin up and running would be
greatly appreciated.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Larry Grover
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Running a windows program on a linux box
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:54:23 Michael Klama wrote:
> Hello Larry,
> The output of cat /etc/fstab shows that /var is in LABEL=/var The
> output
> of /sbin/fdisk -l is as follows
> Device Blocks
> Hda1 56196
> Hda2 19952730
> Hda5 8843751
> Hda6 8843751
> Hda7 265041
> Hda8 265041
> Hda9 200781 swap
>
> I have been able to get /var down to about 55M by deleting most of
> the logs
> and removing all of the win4lin files that were in there. Of the
> 55M, 30M
> of it is in /var/lib.
Did this free up enough space so that you can get onto your system?
Did you ever succeed in getting win4lin installed?
For my own curiosity (if you don't mind): /var is on it's own
partition & which one? how much free space do you have in /var now
("df -h /var")?
FYI, if your logfiles were really big, you may want to tune
/etc/logrotate.conf. In addition to the "compress" option that I and
others mentioned, you can specify how often you want to rotate you
logs, and how many old logs you want to keep.
Also, logrotate runs from cron -- in a default install it is set to
run at 4:02 AM (see /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.daily/logrotate). So
unless your machine is on early in the morning, logrotate won't get
run, and your logs may grow quite big. If you don't want to leave
your machine on 24 hr/day, you might want to change your crontab so
daily jobs get run at a time when you usually have the machine on.
You can also run logrotate manually. I guess you could also add a
line to your rc.local file, so that logrotate runs whenever you boot
(probably only a good idea if your machine regularly goes through a
boot/power-off cycle once a day).
--
Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch of Med
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