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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:11:19 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        David Oleszkiewicz <davido@labrador.dhs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /var filling up
Message-ID:  <20011003131119.B559@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011002195847.M13152-100000@labrador.dhs.org>; from davido@labrador.dhs.org on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:01:58PM -0700
References:  <20011002195847.M13152-100000@labrador.dhs.org>

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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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