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RE: [cobalt-users] HELP! /var full and can't login...
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] HELP! /var full and can't login...
- From: Thom LaCosta <baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Sep 2 17:08:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Dan Spangenberg wrote:
> Thanks for all the info, I am going to do the fix late tomorrow evening.
>
> 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.
I'm coming in late on this....but if you used something like securecrt or
putty and SSH, you can log in as root and delete what you need to.
Or, am I mistaken(not about the "wisdom" of logging in as root, but being
able to do so to delete files) ?
thom