When your Linux apps suddenly start acting weird…
May 23rd 2005 // Categories: Tech Thoughts, Written when I still was a heathen
- Don’t go berserk on any settings which you think may “solve” the problem;
- Do a df -h to see whether your
/home partition is full;
- Do compress your mails and chat logs;
- Don’t be foolish to think that chmod 400 mylogs.tar.bz2 protects them from rm -rf when you try to delete the uncompressed logs;
- Do have a backup ready that is never older than 24 hours;
- If you screwed up any of the points above… do post this list on your blog to protect others from going through the same embarrassment.
Are you supposed to be studying?
A good configured GNU/Linux does not act weird… ;-)
You’re totally right, it’s just that amsn should do something (i.e. notify me) when the disk is full when trying to write chat logs instead of just doing nothing ;) . I have a
/homethat fits on a cd, it’s a good reason to clean up the trash now and then… preferably before programs start complaining about no space being left on the device ;) .