"Sherman, Paul (CEOSH)" wrote: > I'm not sure how big /tmp is. It's located in the root file system, with no > links anywhere else. What bugs me about it is that it was big enough > until a month ago. What changed and how do I repair it?
What changed is that you stored more files in the root filesystem. Logging in as root, your home directory is in the root filesystem, so any mp3s and jpegs you save in your home directory take up space in the root filesystem. Learn about the df and du commands and try to figure out how much space you have and where. > I have two user accounts set up. When I startx in them, I only get the > blank Gnome > screen without any menus, so they're pretty useless to me. The info I've > read (man > pages and the half-dozen Linux books tell me that I need to copy something > over to > have a usable user X session - but for some reason I never seem to copy the > right files to the right place. The ones I have copied don't make any > difference. So in order to use X at all, > I have to log in as root. This has always been the case? You've never used it successfully except as root since you installed it? > I've been using the system for about a year under RH 6.2 without many > problems until this. > Sadly, If I'm lucky, I get to use the thing about once a week, so it means > limited time to > really dig in. At this rate I may be back up by Memorial Day. > > Any suggestions? You have my sincere condolences. I'm struggling to restrain myself from launching into a vitriolic rant about how I've devoted my life to computing since 1965 and I can't keep up with all this complexity (I'm not an idiot. National Merit Scholar and college graduate, Electrical Engineering, not Basketweaving). And you think you should be able to dabble in it happily, about once a week. My condolences really are sincere. When they told you it was easy they lied. -- 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
