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From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
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Subject: RE: full /var system?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:57:16 -0500
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Try typing:
	du -k /var
and see what is taking up all the space.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kevin Weiss/AUS/Lotus [SMTP:Kevin_Weiss/AUS/Lotus@lotus.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 23, 1999 8:33 AM
> To:	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	full /var system?
> 
> I get a report of a full /var system upon reboot, butI sure as heck don't
> understand
> why or how.
> 
> Anyway...whenever I reboot, when the system prompts me to login, I start
> to
> get
> the following message:
> 
>      Mar 22 17:54:35 freebsd sendmail [146]: NOQUEUE: low on space (have
> 0,
> SMTP-DAEMON
>      needs 101 in /var/spool/mqueue
> 
> However, whenever I look in this directory...all I see are files like
> qfSAA00191, qfSAA00192, etc.
> 
> Opening these files in VI just shows messages that root is sending to the
> system, primarily something
> about vi.recovery or something like that.
> 
> I have to kill the process right after I log in, but do I have to this
> everytime? And what about my var, what
> on earth is making it "full" and "low on space"?
> 
> 
> 
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