Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: >>Even if you use the bash-static package, bash gets installed into >>/usr/local/bin (IIRC) and you may not have /usr while being in single >

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:50:14AM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: Paul de Weerd wrote: Don't change root's shell. It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use th

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Daniel Ouellet
the shell, but might break. Further more, all my upgrades are done locally. I do not have the luxury of having a remote serial console with those nasty pci cards that can put even the BIOS to go through the serial. I can live with it. Will not recommend people anymore to change Who said you need

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Daniel Ouellet wrote: > As good example to help understand this in practice is just like this. > You install your package bash-static, you think you are clever, fine. > Then time pass, you work with someone else, a new release come out, you > need to upgrade that box, but it happen to be remote. Yo

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Greg Thomas wrote: On 5/10/06, Giancarlo Razzolini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul de Weerd wrote: > Don't change root's shell. > > > It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. > > Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use the bas

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Greg Thomas
On 5/10/06, Giancarlo Razzolini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul de Weerd wrote: > Don't change root's shell. > > > It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. > > Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use the bash-static from packag

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:50:14AM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Paul de Weerd wrote: > > > Don't change root's shell. > > > > > > It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. > > > > > Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell > static. I use

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: >[...] >> Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell >There is absolutely no reason to change root's shell. >There is even no reason at all to work as root. >Use sudo, or even su -m, or execute bash

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Paul de Weerd wrote: > > >>Don't change root's shell. >> >> >>It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. >> >> > > Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell T

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Paul de Weerd wrote: > Don't change root's shell. > > > It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. > > Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use the bash-static from packages, and hadn't any problems. I think that booting in single a

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-09 Thread edgarz
reboot in single mode (boot -s) manually mount your partitions and delete unneeded trash :) Tito Mari Francis Escaqo wrote: I got me a 3.8 box as gateway with bash as root's default shell. The pf logs filled up the /var partition and bash complained about not being able to load libiconv which I

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-09 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:40:28PM +0700, Tito Mari Francis Esca?o wrote: | I got me a 3.8 box as gateway with bash as root's default shell. The | pf logs filled up the /var partition and bash complained about not | being able to load libiconv which I believe is a dependency of bash. | With the fai

/var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-09 Thread Tito Mari Francis EscaƱo
I got me a 3.8 box as gateway with bash as root's default shell. The pf logs filled up the /var partition and bash complained about not being able to load libiconv which I believe is a dependency of bash. With the failure of loading libiconv, I can't login on the gateway box and I can't login remo