Urza9814

I've got a 4GB file that I need to back up on a DVD. I tried burning it with k3b, but it says the file is too big. I was thinking maybe I could split it with ark, but it won't load in the file (well, it sat there for about an hour and didn't do anything) and I couldn't find any way to split an archive anyways. What's the fastest, easiest way to be able to burn this?

ah...aight. I think I got it figured it.

ohh wow. nevermind. I tried to look at /var/log/messages....and it wouldn't load with kate or kwrite...and it wouldn't load at all...and so I opened it with less....and then realized to try opening syslog with less...and it's FLOODED with shorewall messages. My bad.

Unfortunatly I can't seem to figure out how to fix that either...I do everything through webmin...and I can't find anything about it in webmin...lol

syslog is back up to 2.2GB...and still completely empty....

I'm actually thinking it might be some kind of harddrive or filesystem problem that caused all this. Maybe an incorrect shutdown? Because I have syslog.1, syslog.2, syslog.3, etc, which seems like they were most likely old syslog files that got renamed instead of deleted when something went wrong. All of them are empty. The one is several gigs, the others are a few megs. Only thing I know of that creates a blank file that's several gigs in size is filesystem errors. I'm not too concerned what caused them if that's the case...I'll just delete and see if they come back for now. I've had to reinstall several times recently, the largest problem being files left over from a failed xen install (which screwed up my entire system) making a bootloader re-installation impossible...so I finally went and cleaned all that up the other day...but yea. There are two files around 15GB, one being syslog.1 and the other being kernel/info.1, neither of which should be there, so I'll just dump 'em and see what happens for now.

Oh yea...I just deleted them...exactly 30GB free now. Wonder what the odds are of two files being exactly 30GB....

I do have some pretty big normal logfiles too though...not a few gigs, but a few that are in the megabytes...

Ok, so I was having trouble with my system running out of disk space all the time. And I couldn't figure out how or why, but it seemed to be eating through 100MB an hour, and once it filled up, apps would start crashing, and if I rebooted or the whole comp crashed the GUI wouldn't load. Well, I discovered my problem. /var/log is 33GB. yes, 33 GIGAbytes. I think the biggest one is syslog.1, measuring in at 14.9GB

So anyways, two questions:

1) It's safe to just do a 'rm -R -f /var/log/*', right? It won't screw anything up?

2) How do I limit the logs? I don't really want to STOP logging, but is there any way to have it, like, delete messages over one week old or something?

oh hey, that fixes everything...hah

thanks :)

doesn't work...

[urza9814@Arochone ~]$ sed s/\<\/script\>/\(script\)/g index.html > indexnew.html

sed: -e expression #1, char 13: unknown option to `s'

[urza9814@Arochone ~]$ sed s/script/script/g index.html > indexnew.html

[urza9814@Arochone ~]$

But how would I have it, say, replace the entire </script> tag? Because I can't put the braces or the slash into sed. I was thinking maybe use tr then run sed then run tr again....but....then I have to find a symbol I can have tr set them to that won't exist on it's own anywhere in the document....

having problems with that for two reasons. First, I need something that'll pick up parts of words. Like, I'm running this on an HTML document, and it seems that if I put in, say, href, it won't do anything because it's always href=. Also, since I'm running it on HTML, I need some way to put in slashes and other odd characters. I also need to find the command to output to a file...I read the man page and stuff, but couldn't find anything that worked. Any ideas? Here's the exact command I'm running:

sed s/script/test/ index.html

I'm looking for a way to make a simple shell script that will search a file for string x and replace it with string y. Basically, a find-and-replace fuction that can be run from the command-line. Is there any easy way of doing this?

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I feel stupid now. Second reboot appears to have fixed everything...dunno why though. This thing confuses the hell outta me...hah

I know it's not a hardware problem...my harddrive is only a few months old, it's a Maxtor, and everything but uprmi is running fine after I went into failsafe and deleted some crap. And I've had the same problem before, on a different hard drive about a year ago when I filled up my HDD, and that's the only problem I ever had on that one too. It's not hardware. I can't check what other programs output, because I deleted stuff so it's not overflowing anymore...lol

As for wine...I'm not running an installer. And the game's been running with no problems every day for about a month...and it's running fine again now that I freed up some disc space. Only thing I'm having trouble with is uprmi.

And no, haven't done anything with perl lately.

So...not everything is ok. urpmi was having some problems....so I'm trying to set it up again, but it's getting all screwy....

[root@Arochone urza9814]# urpmi.removemedia -a
unable to access hdlist file of "plf-nonfree", medium ignored
removing medium "Installation Free DVD (cdrom1)"
removing medium "plf-free"
removing medium "updates"
removing medium "main"
removing medium "contrib"
removing medium "plf-nonfree"
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Can't call method "traverse_tag" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux/URPM/Signature.pm line 91.

Ok, my computer started going crazy...at first it was spitting out error messages whenever I tried to run SE:IV on wine and stuff...so I rebooted, it spit out a few errors...got the same problem though. Tried rebooting again, got to the login prompt, put in my info...and it just brought up the login prompt again. So finally I decide I'll just reinstall. Well, when I go to install, I get an error message saying I need at least 107MB of hard drive space, and I have...NEGATIVE 57MB. Negative. How the hell does that happen? I booted into failsafe and deleted a buncha crap and it seems to be ok now...but...I'm just confused as hell about how you end up with negative hard drive space remaining. And this isn't the first time I've had this problem either. What the hell?

I don't think 3D will ever really be useful on a desktop system as we know it. Our displays are 2D, therefore the most efficient way to display information is in 2D. It's quite a pain to work in 3D on a computer...I'd hate to have to do it every time I boot up. You'd need a true 3D display and 3D input devices for that to really work.

I've got a comment first about the filesystem thing, then I'll get back on topic.

I noticed Linux's file system gets screwy a lot if you shut down improperly...and it takes FOREVER to boot up...and I used to think 'why can't it be more like windoze' (at least win 9x) where it'd come up with the disc check but you just skip it and everything would be fine. But then I installed Freenet, and on Windoze if I have a bad shutdown (happens all the time with it crashing...) I would have to delete my identity file, my downloads file, my uploads file, and a buncha other crap to be able to use Frost again...so basically, I might as well have just re-installed. But on Linux...if I have a bad shutdown....I boot up and it's fine. Love that. hah

Ok, now back on topic.

Basically, I want a Linux that can run all my windoze apps and drivers decently, and install stuff easily! I'm sick of having to download ten .tar.gzs because the first nine won't install and I can't figure out why!

I've tried Ubuntu a few times but the damn thing would never install....

My brother loves it though. He used it a few times in college...he actually went all-Linux on his laptop for a while...but that pretty much died a few weeks later when he couldn't play WoW ;)

Oh god. I wouldn't dare do something like that. I couldn't even get through the install for Gentoo! :-P

I've seen firefox spike up to 22% on my system. Nothing too ususual. Especially if you have a few tabs open.

Not a bad idea...and it would actually be very easy to do. Just have a simple script that runs 'cd ..' 'mv *.[extension] /[folder]'

...or you could just go into the CLI and type that in yourself... ;)

With this, you can boot from floppy, and when inside the boot manager program, instruct it to boot the CD.

Not much use when he's already said he hasn't got a floppy drive ;)

Well, he could take the floppy image, burn it to a CD, and then when it brings up the boot manager program, swap CDs...

I'm thinking you might be able to get it setup so that your bootloader will allow you to boot from the CD, but I'm not sure exactly how to do that. I looked through mcc but it won't let you select CD drives. Might have to edit the text configuration file or something...I dunno. Maybe someone else knows how to do this. Or maybe it's not possible. hah

However, you could also use a boot floppy image to create a bootable CD, copy the files from the windows disc over as the data on the CD, and then run them from the command prompt. I could help you figure out how to do that with Nero...not sure about anything else though.

Did you try some kind of scandisk type utility? I had a similar problem on my iPod nano...it has a buncha junk files and was reporting around 100GB used space when the thing only holds 4GB. I ran WinXP's scandisk and it cleaned it up.

Though now that I think about it, it still reported the drive as being full and I did end up reformatting....but it might work better on an actual disk or something...haha

I have a lotta problems with gaim sending files over AIM also, which is pretty much the same as ICQ. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Still might be firewall settings though...ICQ might have a way to get around NAT and stuff.