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Re: [cobalt-users] root login failure and /var at 100%



If you have console access, type spacebar at boot time. Then select boot menu through "boot". Then give: set params "single". Then give the command "bfd" It will now boot single mode. You'll get a bash shell, and you can delete the logfiles.

At 08:55 1-11-2001 -0800, you wrote:


folks-

i've got a raq2 that has its /var directory at 100% capacity (i did a df -h).

and i can't su to root. just to be sure it wasn't a password-forgetfulness problem, i pressed the password reset switch on the back of the machine. still... i can't login as root, only as admin and the various users..

based on the cobalt site, they tell me to do a restore if i get into this situation. now, there MUST be some way to flush out, for example, the huge log files that are sitting in the /var directory so that i can get back in as root and do what i need to do.

any thoughts?