Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/06/25/01:48:24
OK thanks a lot!!
I remember that I'd problems during one of the last installations. I needed
to abort it and to run the installation again. May be this was the cause of
that big file.
/BSE
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
>
> > At 05:53 PM 6/24/2004, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I have a setup.log.postinstall* file that is >1GB big.
> > >Since I'm running out of space, what happens if I delete this file?
> > >Is it save? Why is it so big?
> > >
> > >Thanks for any hints
> >
> > It's a log file for the output of the postinstall scripts that each
> > package has. It's supposed to be deleted by default. Maybe if
> > you had trouble while running 'setup' last time and it couldn't
> > finish. In that case, it would get left behind. You can delete it.
>
> Actually, there is supposed to be a new such file created for every
> postinstall script setup runs. So, the size of the file above indicates a
> runaway script to me. It would be interesting to find out exactly which
> script got into an infinite loop. Regardless of whether the file's
> contents are informative, though, it is certainly safe to delete it.
> HTH,
> Igor
> --
> http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
> |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
> ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
> |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
> '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
>
> "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route
> to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
>
> --
> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
>
--
"Sie haben neue Mails!" - Die GMX Toolbar informiert Sie beim Surfen!
Jetzt aktivieren unter http://www.gmx.net/info
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
- Raw text -