"Sherman, Paul (CEOSH)" wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:27:12AM -0800, Sherman, Paul (CEOSH) wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > I'm not entirely sure what happened, but I hope you all can help. [...] > The only error that shows up when I pipe the output is > "not enough disc space in /tmp" > > This is very odd, because I emptied /tmp.
How big is /tmp? Is it in a separate file system by itself, a virtual memory backed filesystem, in the root file system, a symlink to somewhere else? > Also, some other info - > This is all happening as root > > Since I'm the only person, I usually run as root. Bad, bad, bad. That puts your home directory in the root file system, and it makes you really vulnerable to seriously screwing things up with minor typos. Who knows what Gnome is trying to create in /tmp and $HOME, and they're both probably in the root filesystem. Do yourself a favor and create a normal user account. Use that to look around and get to know your system, like how many filesystems there are, where they're mounted, how much swap you have, where the log files live and do they grow forever or automatically get trimmed, stuff like that. Then, once you know where you have enough space to install it, get sudo ( http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/ ) and use that, and only log in as root if you can't log in as a normal user, and you know why. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
