[rhn-users] RHEL3 box hanging at login

[Tom Hodder]

Quoting "Lamon, Frank III" <Frank_LaMon at csx.com>:

> Check out the size of your /var directory - it's probably over 80%. 
> Depending on your update level the default setting for auditd is to 
> suspend auditable actions (logons, etc) once the filesystem reaches a 
> certain threshold (80%  is default I think).

That was true as well, 89% full in fact. I have setup a notify at 90%, 
so I had
better take that down to 70% to be safe.

Thanks,

Tom





> Quoting Thomas Holzgruber <thomas.holzgruber at byting.at>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i had the same problem, i turned off the audit daemon to start at
>> boot time to solve this problem.
>>
>
> Worked like a charm, Thanks!
>
> Now to find out whats wrong with the audit daemon...
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>> //thomas
>>
>> Tom Hodder wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In a blade farm of a hundred or so RHEL3 boxes, 2 of these machines started
>>> hanging after the password was entered at the login prompt, both 
>>> via ssh and
>>> locally, this was after a few days of running time.
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