I would suggest putting OpenOffice in your /home directory unless you need it to be a systemwide available program. OpenOffice takes up 193 megs for a full install, so it shouldn't have taken that much of your 20G's of space unless you put it on a partition which has very little space open. Remember that /opt unless it's it's own partition which I myself make it..then /opt will be kept on the / (root) partition which by default isn't/doesn't need to be that big. Also, remember that KDE, Gnome and several other programs end up in /opt which can make it HUGE. My /opt is 1.9G because I have Ximian Gnome, KDE2 and KDE3, moneydance and a lot of other stuff..but since it's a 5G partition I'm not to worried. As for the logs. If you have the default cronjobs running that SuSE puts in then it should make .gz files of logs after they reach a certain size. It's your call on how long you keep these logs around and which logs you keep. They are mainly for your benefit. I usually keep 1 months worth of longs on my home workstation ..anymore and it just takes up needless space. OpenOffice 1.0 is pretty damn nice. I'm sorry you had such a crappy time with it. Give it another shot but put it on a partition that has the space to hold it. If the partition that houses /home on your machine is on a partition that is lacking in space then you can always put it somewhere else such as /usr and once you do that if it's just a single user install you can chown the directory to yourself so you can do the install. Example: mkdir /usr/OpenOffice && chown <your username>.users /usr/OpenOffice The above should be done as root. If you do this then you as a system user should be able to write and read the directory with no problems. Make sure that you put this directory in your path or at least make the shortcut in KDE point to /usr/OpenOffice/soffice so that it can start the program. Cheers! * Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. (smolnar@jadeinc.com) [020504 11:53]: ::I am running SuSE 7.1/KDE3 on a 750 MHz Athlon with 256MB RAM. This ::morning I installed v1.0 of Open Office. It was a mistake. The system ::performance was really degraded. In addition the partition useage went ::from 40% to 80%; this is a 20GB Linux partition. I ripped out OO by the ::roots, but didn't reclaim any of the partition. :: ::This is probably unrelated to the OO problem, but I've noticed that some of ::the log files become extremely large, over 100MB in a very short period of ::time. This also seems to degrade performance. :: ::I would appreciate any comments and suggestions. :: ::Thanks in advance. :: :: ::Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set ::Foundation for Chemistry Multivariant and stochastic ::http://web.jadeinc.com/FoundationChem :: :: ::-- ::To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ::For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ::Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com :: -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--