Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:52:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Gene Bomgardner <glb@brightstar.bomgardner.net> To: David Oleszkiewicz <davido@labrador.dhs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var filling up Message-ID: <200110030352.f933qCo04472@brightstar.bomgardner.net> In-Reply-To: <20011002195847.M13152-100000@labrador.dhs.org> "from David Oleszkiewicz at Oct 2, 2001 08:01:58 pm"
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> 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. > > /var is it's own slice with like 20M > FreeBSD 4.3 > > Has anyone else seen this problem > Used to. /var would fill up, but I never had to reboot to recover space. What I did was edit /etc/crontab's newsyslog entry. I added "-a /usr/log.archive" to it and created the /usr/log.archive directory. Now the zipped files wind up on the /usr slice where there is tons of room. Voila, no more /var jams. Gene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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