On 16 Jul 01, at 23:13, Davy Durham wrote:
> remember something like that happening to me on 7.x.... what it was, was
> some process compressing /var/mail and /var/news ... after a long time
> running it would just take longer and longer... I'd just delete anything
> in /var/mail and /var/new (***IF YOUR NOT USING THAT AS A MAIL SERVER***)
> and it may solve your probablem... see if you don't have just an
> exorbement amount of files in those directories....
>
Nothing much of anything in /var. This is a very under-used machine.
Maybe I should try hammering on it more to see if I can cause it to
fail more often. It's hard to track something that seems to occur at
random over periods of days/weeks.
Doc
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