Good Evening to all,

I am having a problem with our unix server, I give you a little history.

last we the logins started getting slower and slower, when we tried to print nothing came out on the network printer, the system had an error ("printer file close error unit=0). Checking the server there are two alarms that come up, (NOTICE HTFS: NOT SPACE ON DEV HD (1/42) that will roll in for awhile then we get (NOTICE: HWARNING: ERR: ERRORLOG OVERFLOW 0 SPACE ON DEV HD 1/42). Logged into the sever and removed most temp files which amounted to about 30 megs, but the errors still come up. Next step was to try a soft reboot using "shutdown -g:0" will not boot down, comes up with an error (warning:system shutdown started at 'cat $shutdown'#).

Any help would be greatly
appreciated
Rich,

Hi,

Sounds like you can help me - I have a mass spectrometer at work which runs on top of a xenix system, and it keeps on telling me I have no space on my dev 1/40... Am a bit of a unix newbie but have checked around, and my /dev/root/ partition turns out to be 100% full. Can I delete everything in the /tmp directory reasonably safely, or might there be stuff in the subdirectories which is necessary for nonsmooth running of system? The /tmp/perms and /tmp/xnx427 directories sound a bit intimidating...

Also read to try to find any core dumps and delete them, but cant get my find statement working, and everytime I try to read man find entry the help file gets displaced off the screen by hd: no space on dev 1/40 messages grrrr.

Whereelse can I look for stuff in my root I dont need? The system is like, 14 years old and just recently given to us as gift, so could be all sorts of rubbish on there for all I know...

Any help would be really great, thanks, Malcolm

generally, you can delete everything in the /tmp directory. Although some folks may keep stuff in there.

my os sco 5.0.6
type
df -v - to check disk space in size and %
if 100 % full in root partition
clear all log file (>)
exp.
> xx.log (in all log files)

pankaj