[Gllug] File size limit exceeded

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Wed Jan 30 17:41:48 UTC 2002


On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:57:19PM +0000, Brent Geach wrote:
> Hiya,
> Im having a bit of an odd problem
> 
> When I try and su - root I get this
> 
> [brent at shadow brent]$ su - 
> Password: 
> File size limit exceeded

Something in /var/log that has got too big ? Like wtmp ??
What do you get when you go ulimit ?

Look at /etc/security/limits.conf

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Alain Williams

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