On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:59, Mark Haney wrote: > the background),so I killed that. No help. I then ran df and found > that my / partition was at 100% usage. > Probably your log files have filled the system up. Check that first. If you don't find the space there you can use du to get a breakdown of which directories have the most space used. One time I saw a system like this and found that the backup script they were using had a typo. They were creating a backup to a file under the /dev directory instead of sending it to the tape drive. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx QOTD: "I drive my car quietly, for it goes without saying."