On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:58:15 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > Beartooth wrote: [...] >> Then I thought to run baobab. Lo and behold, I was running out of >> space -- because /var/log shows up consuming 54 GB of space! Yes, >> fifty- four gigs. >> >> What could be causing this, and what do i do about it?? > > Um, just a shot in the dark, but it's probably spewing some message over > and over. Maybe you should take a look at that. Sounds only too computer-likely; but how do I look? Maybe if I startx for root, and get into that messages file with nautilus and gedit ... >> At present, the machine offers only a CLI login; if I use is as >> root, startx still works; but if I log in as user, startx fails. So I >> can't run Pan, and can't c&p directly between anything in it (including >> this list!) and the CLI. [...] > Read the error message that's repeated millions of times, and > investigate that. Will do; or at least post it if I do find it. Stay tuned. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
