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Subject: Re: cleaning out log files? [top-posting corrected]
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Oliver Iberien writes:

>  It turns out there was a core dump I had not noticed. I had the
>  idea of running ls -SlhR /var/ > /.../var_contents.txt and
>  looking for anything huge.

	Try this instead:

	du /var | sort -nr | head -n 25 | sendmail <you>

	

					Robert Huff