Subject: Re: home directory full now
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 13:51:08 MDT
... and if its filling things up that quickly using 'top' to look at
processor and memory usage may help identify the culprit too.
Iain
on 1/6/01 8:43 pm, Chris Ruprecht at chrup999@yahoo.com wrote:
> 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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