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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:55:06 +0100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl>
To:        mysql-freebsd <mysql-freebsd@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird /var behavior or was I hacked?
Message-ID:  <20001221165506.F59674@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001221094434.00963ad0@lh1.rdc2.pa.home.com>; from mysql-freebsd@home.com on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:44:34AM -0500
References:  <MPBBLJLABKFCLAHJNBNGIEFHIBAA.wabit@adl.ussr.net> <3.0.6.32.20001221094434.00963ad0@lh1.rdc2.pa.home.com>

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On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:44:34AM -0500, mysql-freebsd wrote:
> There is this huge difference between 767 MB reported occupied by df
> and 14 MB of the sum of all teh files. Looks as if somebody got
> in, made an invisible partition within /var.

Looks like a daemon which has files still open although they don't
exist in the directory-table anymore. Reboot is one solution :-)

The other option is to find the evil process which has still these
files open, use lsof (/usr/ports/*/lsof) for it: 
				/usr/local/sbin/lsof | grep var

Edwin
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