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From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Help
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:51:19 GMT
Organization: VSi
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Andrew Hanson <ahanson@wyoming.com> wrote:

>Hello - I am sorry for what is going to be such a "newbee" question!  I hope someone can 
>help me.

>I installed ver2.1 things have been going OK with it.  Now - I have several problems:

>1.	I was trying to do backups when I typed sd0 instead of st0.  The machine ran
>	for a minute then said - Tape full end of tape - and now I get errors saying 
>	/ filesystem full.  I know that I need to clean it out - but how?

 Woah, you must have one big huge file in /. Do cd / then type ls -Ral
ls-lr, then once its done, take a look (pico) through the file ls-lr
and look for any abnormally HUGE files in /

>2.	Secondly - I am trying to configure the web server.  I am following the info 
>	in the manual.  It says to log in as root and edit the /var/www/conf/httpd.conf
>	file - when I attempt to do this I get and error that says "Permission Denied"
>	This was happening before I filled my / directory with junk.

 config_httpd I believe.

>3.	I need to configure sendmail for our system.  I know that I need to tell it 
>	domain and all of that - but I can not find where to do this - to book is not 
>	real helpful on this one.  Any Ideas?

 /etc/sendmail.cf
 
>4.	And finally - I am using a SMC EtherEZ ethernet card - BSDI is finding this 
>	card during bootup - however when running config_netstart it will not give me
>	option for this card - instead when I login - I have to enter a manual config 
>	for the card. (ifconfig we0 205.227.208.10 255.255.255.0 link0) every time.  
>	If I have to reboot the machine - I have to reenter this command.  Any sugg.?

 /etc/netstart, add your ifconfig in there.


 Hope it helps,
 Lance