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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: David Oleszkiewicz <davido@labrador.dhs.org>
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Subject: Re: /var filling up
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:01:58PM -0700, David Oleszkiewicz wrote:
> so after about a week and a half of firewall messages and normal logging
> messages, my /var fills up.  i scan through all the logrotated <log>.gz
> files for anything interesting and then i remove them.  the thing is the
> /bin/df output shows that /var is still above 100%.  This means i can't
> send or receive mail or anything interesting like that.  i reboot and then
> everything is ok.

Try "dk -sk *" in /var, then go to the directories with the most
diskspace and do it there again until you've found the evil thing.

Edwin

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