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

["Jolley, Carl" <Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Thom LaCosta
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 8:07 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] HELP! /var full and can't login...


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) ?
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I was my understanding that if /var was full _NO_ logins
happen, not with SSH not root -- nothing. The idea of having
a throwaway file that can be removed would only make sense
if there was some way to remove it _without_ logging in. One
way that occurs to me is a CGI application that can use an
already running wew server.