[BlueOnyx:04628] Re: Help with recent Installs (/var Full) (Mysql quit)

[Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

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Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 10:13 AM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:04627] Help with recent Installs (/var Full) (Mysql quit)


>   I have installed Blueonyx on 2 servers 1 an IBM Xseries 335, with 2-73gb 
> drives that Blueonyx set to raid, the other is an Dell 2650 with 5-18gb 
> drives setup as 1 container both servers on on their own separate static 
> IP address  both worked great for about 2 weeks then phpmyadmin could not 
> connect and the mysql said that it could not connect with these settings 
> to check the settings, a little more investigation showed that the red 
> light was in the status section on the drives and the graphs show that the 
> /var is .04% from 100% full, but the green light is on for mysql even 
> though its not working as explained in the following,
>
>    if I use mindterm I cant stop mysql, and I cant Start it ether, Status 
> shows its stopped, and if I use condrestart then status says its running 
> but nothing works, and after a short time you check the status again and 
> then again its stopped, if using start, or restart, it dose nothing for 
> about 2 minutes and then says that there was an error starting the Daemon.
>
>    I am a fast learner and am new to Linux and to Blueonyx so when giving 
> me an instruction to check or run or delete something at least the 1st 
> time it would save a lot of time to include the complete path needed to do 
> it and the command and or the complete syntax for the command. As I said I 
> learn fast but hunting down information to learn how to do what you are 
> asking is very slow and many times is proprietary when it comes to the 
> paths. Such as I was going to take a chance and delete out some of the 
> logs in the /Var to make room to see if it would fix it but without the 
> GUI to do it I dont know how and I have seen on other posts asking if it 
> was safe to do so and I found no responses.
>
>   Any Help Gladly accepted!
> _______________________________________________
>

You should definitely clear out some of the space in your var directory.

What do you see when you
cd /var/log
ls -lah

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Ken M
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net