Hello again,
Thanks for answering.
Actually, to be able to send the message asking for help I had to
delete al the content from the /tmp directory. There was a lot of garbage
in there.
Despite the cleaning of such directory, I am not able to print
from kghostview. From other applications I can do it as expected normally.
Probably the file I am trying to print is too large to fit into other
temporary directories I have to clean up.
The content of the /var/spool/lpd directory is as follows:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1.0k Feb 6 10:57 lp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1.0k Dec 13 17:54 lp0/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Feb 5 19:44 lpd.lock
Should the lpd.lock file be there?
The content of the /var/spool/lpd/lp is
total 60M
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody lp 50k Dec 7 14:30 dfA335abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 fabian lp 117k Jan 7 10:14 dfA584abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 fabian lp 117k Jan 7 10:17 dfA585abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 fabian lp 100k Jan 7 11:39 dfA588abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 fabian lp 100k Jan 7 11:40 dfA589abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 fabian lp 173k Jan 7 11:57 dfA596abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody lp 175k Jan 23 11:23 dfA731abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 fabian lp 1.0M Feb 5 13:53 dfA939abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 fabian lp 1.0M Feb 5 13:54 dfA940abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 fabian lp 1.0M Feb 5 19:19 dfA942abaco.uam.mx
-rw-rw---- 1 fabian lp 56M Feb 5 19:23 dfA943abaco.uam.mx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10k Jan 14 15:45 filter*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190 Jan 14 15:45 general.cfg*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Feb 6 10:56 lock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 342 Jan 14 15:45 postscript.cfg*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 25 Feb 6 10:56 status
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 150 Jan 14 15:45 textonly.cfg*
60 megabytes !!! Which ones should I keep? Are the .cfg files important
enough to keep them? I guess I must delete at least the files owned by non
privileged users.
The /var/log directory is one order of magnitude smaller than the
last one, but still too big:
total 6.3M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0k Nov 23 09:56 adm/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.4k Feb 6 00:44 boot.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27k Feb 4 01:40 boot.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48k Jan 28 01:33 boot.log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37k Jan 21 00:18 boot.log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27k Jan 14 00:15 boot.log.4
-rw------- 1 root root 21k Feb 6 11:01 cron
-rw------- 1 root root 63k Feb 4 04:02 cron.1
-rw------- 1 root root 63k Jan 28 04:02 cron.2
-rw------- 1 root root 63k Jan 21 04:02 cron.3
-rw------- 1 root root 63k Jan 14 04:02 cron.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7k Jan 26 13:04 dmesg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 8 21:19 first_boot_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 8 20:57 htmlaccess.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0k Feb 4 04:02 httpd/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 291k Feb 6 11:03 lastlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 290k Jan 31 19:49 lastlog.1
-rw------- 1 root root 616k Feb 6 11:07 maillog
-rw------- 1 root root 759k Feb 4 03:48 maillog.1
-rw------- 1 root root 771k Jan 28 01:34 maillog.2
-rw------- 1 root root 1.2M Jan 21 03:47 maillog.3
-rw------- 1 root root 863k Jan 14 03:34 maillog.4
-rw------- 1 root root 21k Feb 6 11:04 messages
-rw------- 1 root root 79k Feb 4 04:02 messages.1
-rw------- 1 root root 120k Jan 28 04:02 messages.2
-rw------- 1 root root 126k Jan 21 04:02 messages.3
-rw------- 1 root root 85k Jan 14 04:02 messages.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 618 Feb 6 10:27 netconf.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8k Jan 19 11:54 netconf.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 747 Dec 7 16:26 netconf.log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0k Nov 21 16:35 netconf.log.3
drwxrwxr-x 3 news news 1.0k Dec 14 04:02 news/
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 29 1999 pacct
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0k Feb 4 04:02 samba/
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 29 1999 savacct
-rw------- 1 root root 2.6k Feb 6 08:58 secure
-rw------- 1 root root 10k Feb 3 19:39 secure.1
-rw------- 1 root root 6.3k Jan 27 10:00 secure.2
-rw------- 1 root root 13k Jan 20 15:25 secure.3
-rw------- 1 root root 11k Jan 13 20:11 secure.4
drwx------ 2 root root 1.0k Feb 6 00:44 security/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 682k Feb 6 00:44 security.log
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 4 04:02 spooler
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 28 04:02 spooler.1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 04:02 spooler.2
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 14 04:02 spooler.3
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 04:02 spooler.4
drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 1.0k Jan 3 2000 squid/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1k Jan 14 15:44 urpmi.log
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 29 1999 usracct
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0k Nov 11 1999 vbox/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 78k Feb 6 11:03 wtmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 473k Jan 31 20:26 wtmp.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.3k Feb 2 09:32 xdm-error.log
-rw------- 1 root root 2.4k Feb 5 13:57 xferlog
-rw------- 1 root root 5.3k Feb 3 11:11 xferlog.1
-rw------- 1 root root 1.7k Jan 26 20:08 xferlog.2
-rw------- 1 root root 1.4k Jan 19 16:05 xferlog.3
-rw------- 1 root root 1.8k Jan 13 10:01 xferlog.4
Probably I should keep only the directories.
I would appreciate further suggestions. Thanks in advance.
Fabian.
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> Pe�a Arellano Fabian Erasmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having problems printing from a machine using Linux Mandrake
> > 7.0. The error messages are the following:
> >
> > lpr: : temp file write error
> > lpr: stdin: empty input file
> >
> > and were generated while trying to print from kghostview. I cannot even
> > print from root. It is affecting any kind of document; it refuses to print
> > simple text files as well.
> > Thanks in advance for reading this e-mail.
>
>
> at a prompt, type 'df' and you should see something like this:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 2.0G 1.9G 67M 97% /
> /dev/hda8 7.6M 2.0k 7.2M 0% /foo
> /dev/hda4 592M 349M 213M 62% /home
> /dev/hda7 1.4G 1.1G 274M 80% /mnt/hda7
> /dev/hda6 902M 833M 69M 92% /mnt/win_d
>
> except that one of those entries is going to say 0 Avail.
>
> That's your problem - no space on disk for files, even for
> root. You need to get some free space for printing (and
> lots of other things!) to work. Out of curiosity, does
> /var/log have huge directories in it? There is a problem
> with some versions of the logrotate that makes some of
> the dirs there huge (megabytes!), and you want to update
> logrotate (see previous messages here) if so.
>
> In any case, clear out some space (CAREFULLY!) in your full
> partition(s) and you should see an improvement....
>
> rc
>
>
> Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
Re: [expert] lpr: : temp file write error lpr: stdin: empty inputfile.
=?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?= Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:53:27 -0800
- [expert] lpr: : temp file w... =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
- Re: [expert] lpr: : te... Rusty Carruth
- Re[2]: [expert] lpr... =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
- Re[2]: [expert]... Rusty Carruth
- Re: Re[2]: ... =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
