[ILUG] Rebuilding KDE for root from the terminal screen

[Comerford, Wayne]

Hi Con,

As far as I can remember it was "YPBINPROC_Domain: Domain not bound".
The reason why I can't check them now is because I removed roots mail. (slap
in the head for me)
I taught I had ran out of space but that didn't fix it. 
[root at waynesworld Blondzer]# df -k

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              1973472   1171761    699700  63% /
/dev/hda3              3951041    162894   3583720   4% /home 

I'm not too familiar with Cron (and come to think of it, Linux as well) but
I read somewhere that it may have caused this. Something like, it would
check your system every 1 min and send a mail to root. I stopped this deamon
but still it didn't fix the problem. Unfortunitly i can't get to my linux
box at the moment, so i can't check /var/log/messages.

I'm sorry that i can't provide more information as of now, But if there is
anything you need to know please don't hesitate to ask.

And thanks a million for your reply.
Wayne. 

"Comerford, Wayne" wrote:
[snip]
> After about three times I decided to check Roots mail. There was over
10,000
> mails. When I tried to retrieve these the system crashed. Rebooted and now
I
[snip]
> I can log in as root through failsafe to get to the terminal screen and do
> all my configuring from there.
As a guess I would say that the 10,000 mails for root may be quite
interesting
to look at ( i.e. they nay be eamiling teh root about some unusual
condition).

Also check the logs for error messages ( on my system : /var/log/messages )

I can not say much more without more info.

Con