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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 02 September 2002 00:24, Dan Spangenberg wrote:
> Thanks for all the info, I am going to do the fix late tomorrow evening.
>
> One other tidbit of info I found was a procedure to possibly prevent this
> from occurring in the future.
> It was suggested that one should put a 100K junk file in /var that is owned
> by admin and not su. In the event of a disk full error, admin would be able
> to go in and delete it, thereby freeing up enough space to login as su.
>
> Will this work?  If so it seems like a nice bit of insurance. Granted,
> active monitoring would be preferred, but I like the idea of a "back door".
>

[root /root]# ls / -l | grep var
drwxr-xr-x  20 root     root         1024 Jul 27 08:29 var
The directory is uid gid 0, admin can't write to the directory.

/etc/cobalt/swatch/fs.conf has a parameter 
warn2 = no
changing this to
warn2 - yes
should send you an email at 90% instead of 95% might help.
Else you could write your own script to run in a cron job that checks the file 
system.

Gerald
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