Quoting Sadin Nurkic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At 01:50 07/09/2001, you wrote:
>
> >I get a strange error when I tra to log in as a user by su
> >after setting the password su fails with the message that "the maximal
> >file size is exceeded" ("Die maximale Dateigr��e ist �berschritten")
> >This error comes when working in XWindows not at the console.
> >
> >Whats the error?
> >
> >Ciao, J�rgen
> >--
> > CUT < <
>
> Hello,
> In future try searching the mailing list archives at
> www.linux-mandrake.com :)
> it will save you a lot of time, but the problem is in
> /etc/pam.d/limits.conf (off
> the top of my head) and it happens just after you activate bastille
> supposedly.
> One of the lines says
> * .... fsize .... 100000
> where 100000 represents maximum size of the home directory, so jsut
> comment
> out that
> line by putting a # infront of the *....
>
> Sadin....
I don't blame Jurgen for asking that here. I searched the archives
and all I found was some smart-ass comment about "you better run
Bastille more carefully next time" which is of NO help.
The problem is a file,
/home/<user>/.xauth/refcount/root/<hostname>/unix:0
(or somewhere near there)
which shows up as 102.4 megabytes - sometimes accompanied by a BUS
error from su.
So, I'm guessing that bastille file limit just catches the problem...
I still have this problem on my two MDK 8.0 workstations as well.
Why su creates this size file is beyond me - but a BUS error is a
good indication that something bad is happening.
It is apparently NOT taking up that much space (by looking at
the output of "df ." for example).
Both Jurgen (I presume) and I would like to know how to fix the
problem - not just comment out the limit so we don't see it anymore.
Eric
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