RE: [cobalt-users] HELP! /var full and can't login...

["Paul Alcock" <webmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I have a RAQ2 that has a few of our own doamins for our company. An issue
> came up when a couple of users were experiencing problems logging 
> into their
> web pages.  We telnetted to the RAQ, logged in as admin and then tried to
> change to SU. It wouldn't let us. We are sure that we have the password
> correct.  Did a liitle diggin and found out that our /var partition is
> full - 100%. Ouch!
> Upon further inspection I see a large file, analog.dns that is 189megs!


> 
> Question is what can I do to correct this without a total reinstall?  Is
> there anyway to delete this file or reduce its size?  What does this file
> actually do?
> I read that if I can get some space on /var, then I will be able 
> to login as
> SU.
> 
> Is there anything I can do in the admin mode on a browser to 
> reduce the size
> on /var enough to login?
> Any other ideas?
> 
> I am a newbie with RAQ's and unix compared to most on the list, 
> so please be
> gently on me :-)
http://www.agilitysystems.com/raq/varfullsolution.html

:)
Paul