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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 02 September 2002 20:06, Thom LaCosta wrote:
> 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) ?
>

The problem was /var is full and he can't log in as root

Gerald
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