Full /home hoses a box

[Mike Reinehr]

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 12:35 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> One of my servers is hosed, I'm offsite and can't get to it until
> tomorrow. Nmap shows ssh and samba to be active as normal but all
> attempts to connect to the box are rejected.
>
> Based on when it apparently went south I'm guessing that a runaway job
> has filled a disk (it was getting low on free GB anyway). But the
> overflow would have been only on /home which is its own disk.
>
> I thought a full /home would be survivable. No?
>
> What can I do to prevent this in the future? I'm loathe to use quotas
> because some of the accounts need large amounts of space at various times.
>
> Any possible creative ideas to get the box to respond?
>
> Michael

Michael,

Are you attempting to login (ssh) as root or a normal user? A normal user 
would not be allowed to login with a full /home disk.

cmr

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