another way around it is to setup your user as sudo with visudo and sudo into
su this way it seems to work. I think this is either a problem with user
quotas or security
On Sunday 25 March 2001 07:53 pm, you wrote:
> On 26 Mar 2001 00:44:44 +0200, Lonely Cat wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > dont know why, whenever I try to su, it says File size limit exceeded.
> >
> > System is Mandrake Cooker from ftp.sunet.se
> >
> > thanks for any clue,
> >
> > lonely
> >
> > --
> >
> > 2B or not 2B, that's a question. :)
>
> I Have the same problem. If i su it creates a file which is
>
> ls -l .xauth/refcount/root/node1583e.a2000.nl/unix\:0
>
> -rw------- 1 andre andre 34 mrt 26 02:28
> .xauth/refcount/root/node1583e.a2000.nl/unix:0
>
> or 34 b big. But when i logout ls -l claims the same file is 400Mb
> big(with du the filesize wil stay in the kb region) and that is because
> of my system doesn't allow file-creation of more that 400Mb. But when i
> try to login .xauth/refcount/root/node1583e.a2000.nl/unix:0 is checked
> if the file is not to big. I can't add above 400MB to a file so i will
> get the messages File size limit exceeded.
>
> ls -l .xauth/refcount/root/node1583e.a2000.nl/unix\:0
>
> -rw------- 1 andre andre 409600000 mrt 25 20:48
> .xauth/refcount/root/node1583e.a2000.nl/unix:0
>
> Solution: I don't know
> temporary solution: remove
> .xauth/refcount/root/node1583e.a2000.nl/unix:0 and you can su to root
> again temporary.
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