Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] SSH Not Responding

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 04 July 2002 12:51 pm, David Lucas wrote:
> At 10:48 AM 7/4/2002, you wrote:
> > > This may be a symptom of having a full '/' partition
> > > The last two updates put a large amount of data on the '/'
> > > partition....
> > >
> > > The problem is that you can't log in to fix it....
> > > Some of the files need to be removed, or you need to move a directory
> > > and symlink it
> > >
> > > If the RaQ3 is accessable, you could pull the drive, mount it on a
> > > linux desktop and fix it.
> >
> >  That makes sense, I sure as heck can't get in on telnet or ssh.  I feel
> >lucky I was even able to get the service provider to do a reboot today.  I
> >doubt seriously that I could get them to do what you suggested.  I can't
> >believe this, does this mean I'm basically completely screwed here?  This
> >was a busy ecommerce site and if it's experiencing what you've mentioned I
> >guess it will be down til next Monday when I can migrate it the heck away
> >from the RaQ.  Does anyone know of a possible way to resolve this issue
> >without pulling the harddrive?  Is this the result of Sun's quickly
> > written patches not cleaning themselves up after the reconfig?
> >
> >thanks,
> >Brad
>
> Can you ftp in?  if so, delete some files

I thought about that bit which files on '/' can he delete as admin, most of 
them belong to root  don't they

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