Re: Wierd RH 6.0 behaviour.

[Arun Krishnaswamy <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:12:47PM +0000, SAISANTHOSH.B said:
 
 => > 	- /var usage going to 100% as detected by df, and not a single
 => > file or files being found on the partition to account for the space. 
 => > 	- randomly jumping permissions in /dev (I owned all the ttys one
 => > fine morning, for instance)
 => 
 => You own the ttys' that you login to. A snip of output would be
 => recommended.

	It's not just ttys, lots of other devices too.
Here is the situation right now :
[...] 
 
crw-------   1 arun     sys       14,   4 Apr 18 01:23 audio
crw-------   1 arun     sys       14,  20 Apr 18 01:23 audio1
crw-------   1 arun     sys       14,   3 Apr 18 01:23 dsp
crw-------   1 arun     sys       14,  19 Apr 18 01:23 dsp1
crw-------   1 arun     root      29,   0 Apr 12 21:12 fb0
[...] 
crw-------   1 arun     root      29, 224 Apr 12 21:18 fb7
brw-------   1 arun     floppy     2,   0 May  6  1998 fd0
brw-------   1 arun     floppy     2,  12 May  6  1998 fd0D360
[...] 
brw-------   1 arun     floppy     2,  24 May  6  1998 fd0h720
brw-------   1 arun     floppy     2,   1 May  6  1998 fd1
brw-------   1 arun     floppy     2,  13 May  6  1998 fd1D360
[...] 
brw-------   1 arun     floppy     2,  25 May  6  1998 fd1h720
brw-------   1 arun     disk      22,   0 May  6  1998 hdc
crw-------   1 arun     root      15,   0 Apr 16 11:37 js0
[...] 
crw-------   1 arun     root      15,   3 Apr 16 11:37 js3
crw-------   1 arun     sys       35,   0 Apr 18 01:23 midi0
crw-------   1 arun     sys       14,   2 Apr 18 01:23 midi00
[...] 
crw-------   1 arun     sys       35,   3 Apr 18 01:23 midi3
crw-------   1 arun     sys       14,   0 Apr 18 01:23 mixer
crw-------   1 arun     sys       14,  16 Apr 18 01:23 mixer1
crw-------   1 arun     sys       14,   1 Apr 18 01:23 sequencer
crw--w----   1 arun     tty        4,   1 Jun 10 21:53 tty1
crw--w----   1 arun     tty        4,   2 Jun 10 21:53 tty2
crw--w----   1 arun     tty        7,   1 May  6  1998 vcs1
crw--w----   1 arun     tty        7,   2 May  6  1998 vcs2
crw--w----   1 arun     tty        7, 129 May  6  1998 vcsa1
crw--w----   1 arun     tty        7, 130 May  6  1998 vcsa2
 
 => > 	- su taking at least 10s. to issue the root prompt after
 => > verifying the password
 => 
 => try strace'ing su as root.
 
	Will try that. Thanks.
 
 => > 	- telnet into the server taking interminable periods of time
 => 
 => Your /etc/hosts file or DNS server configuration is wrong. 

 	No DNS here, locally, and the hosts files all check out. This
problem is not persistent; it comes and goes, for some reason.

	Thanks.
					 - arun

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