Re: [SLUG] Man Page failure

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Nov 26 2004 - 15:58:10 EST


On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:05:28 -0500, Knowles Burrell <kburrell3@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 09:50:21 -0800, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure what I did, but when I do a man page on something I get the
> > > following failure I will use as a example doing a man on cat:
> > >
> > > gzip: Stdout: No space left on device
> > > man: command '/bin/gzip -dc -user/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz >
> > > /tmp/zman7Lj5Rhf' failed with exit status of 256
> >
> > Probably a stupid question but have you made sure the disk space is there?
>
> Well syslog.log and daemon.log were over 8m in size each. I recovered some
> there but something else has to be using up so much space.

OK, when you say you "recovered some there" what exactly did you do? Did
you restart syslog after doing it?

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