Subject: Re: home directory full now
From: Chris Ruprecht (chrup999@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 13:43:27 MDT
This sounds like some run-away process to me:
Some process starts up, gets an error, terminates (and core dumps maybe) and
restarts. Check:
/etc/inittab - to see what you are starting up
/var/log/* - to see which of the log files is getting very very very big
/etc/rc.d/<directories> - to see what gets started at system startup.
also, do a ps -ef|more to see which process is running.
then do it again to see which process is not running any more and which new
process[es] is[are] running now.
Contact me if you have problems.
Best regards,
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "David C. Hacker, DVM" <dh55145@alltel.net>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: home directory full now
> I am not using ethernet just modem. Everything was fine when I
disconnected
> from the internet last night. Then when I got up this morning the disk
> drive was humming like crazy and the home directory was full. I rebooted
> and it was back to normal then a few minutes later it was full again Any
> ideas?
>
> --
> David C. Hacker, DVM
> 923 B St #32
> Schuyler, NE 68661
>
> > From: Ben Trumbull <trumbull@mac.com>
> > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:14:46 -0700
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: Re: home directory full now
> >
> >> I woke up this morning and my home directory was completely full it is
on an
> >> 800 MB partition and it had 650 MB free last night. The hard drive was
> >> churning away and I couldn't do anything because the partition was
full. Any
> >> ideas what file might have taken up all the space?
> >
> > Pull out the ethernet cable. Examine your system logs. See if
> > anyone thoughtfully left stuff in any ftp accessible directories, etc.
> >
> > If you got hacked, seriously consider formatting all the drives and
> > reinstalling from CD.
> >
> > If not, think about what you've been doing lately. Did someone email
> > you an image file of a CD ? etc.
> >
> > -Ben
>
>
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