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

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Thom LaCosta [mailto:baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:31 AM
To: 'cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] HELP! /var full and can't login...


On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Jolley, Carl wrote:

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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.

Hmmm, As Gerald said "I don't know, I've never had a full /var partition."
Your idea sounds interesting...if it would work, some person writing that
cgi would be doing a favor for lots of us.
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I don't know, that would be pretty complicated cgi script
to write and test:

#usr/bin/perl
unlink "/var/spare";