Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4i : webserver down

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 December 2003 06:31 am, Crocket wrote:

> What scares me though is why httpd.conf was empty all of a sudden.
> Was this caused by the gui unable to overwrite the file after adding
> a vsite ?

When you add a site the httpd.conf file is completely rewritten.  The 
rewrite fails if there's not enough room for it.

> What in the world made cobalt devs decide to make such a small root
> file system.

While you probably meant this as a rhetorical question, in fact there is 
an answer:  When Cobalt first designed their file system drives were 
still very small.  Though drive sizes have changed over the years, Sun 
Cobalt has never redesigned their file system for systems through the 
RaQ4 series.

Filling a file system can cause a lot more serious issues, including not 
being able to restart the server at all.  Consider yourself quite 
lucky, and put a script into cron.daily to monitor free space in your 
file system for you and send you the output every morning.

The command to use from the command line is:

$ df -h

We've successfully moved log files and other directories to /home for 
many of our clients; you might want to do that as well to avoid 
problems in the future.  Instructions are probably in the archives, or 
you can hire someone to do it for you.

Jeff
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