Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:40:25 -0500 From: mysql-freebsd <mysql-freebsd@home.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird /var behavior or was I hacked? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001221134025.009947b0@lh1.rdc2.pa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20001221165506.F59674@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> References: <3.0.6.32.20001221094434.00963ad0@lh1.rdc2.pa.home.com> <MPBBLJLABKFCLAHJNBNGIEFHIBAA.wabit@adl.ussr.net> <3.0.6.32.20001221094434.00963ad0@lh1.rdc2.pa.home.com>
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Wow! Thanks, it worked! Never late to learn new stuff :-) Turns out running Apache for a *while* does leave quite a few BIG chunks of disk occupied. After restarting httpd: prompt>df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on <....> /dev/da0s1h 1034159 14005 937422 1% /var and before /var was giving 81% :-) Thanks! A.H. At 04:55 PM 12/21/00 +0100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: >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: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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