OK thanks a lot!! I remember that I'd problems during one of the last installations. I needed to abort it and to run the installation again. May be this was the cause of that big file.
/BSE > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > > > At 05:53 PM 6/24/2004, you wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I have a setup.log.postinstall* file that is >1GB big. > > >Since I'm running out of space, what happens if I delete this file? > > >Is it save? Why is it so big? > > > > > >Thanks for any hints > > > > It's a log file for the output of the postinstall scripts that each > > package has. It's supposed to be deleted by default. Maybe if > > you had trouble while running 'setup' last time and it couldn't > > finish. In that case, it would get left behind. You can delete it. > > Actually, there is supposed to be a new such file created for every > postinstall script setup runs. So, the size of the file above indicates a > runaway script to me. It would be interesting to find out exactly which > script got into an infinite loop. Regardless of whether the file's > contents are informative, though, it is certainly safe to delete it. > HTH, > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- "Sie haben neue Mails!" - Die GMX Toolbar informiert Sie beim Surfen! Jetzt aktivieren unter http://www.gmx.net/info -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
