Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:29:03 -0800 From: Oliver Iberien <odilist@sonic.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cleaning out log files? [top-posting corrected] Message-ID: <200611261129.03495.odilist@sonic.net> In-Reply-To: <20061126185408.GB686@pubbox.net> References: <200611261037.18806.odilist@sonic.net> <20061126185408.GB686@pubbox.net>
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On Sunday 26 November 2006 10:54, you wrote: > Check "/etc/newsyslog.conf" > All log-files you like to have rotated, should be mentioned there. > > System owned logs are in there per default. > > "du -k /var" will tell you where your space is being "consumed". > Maybe your "/var/mail/root" is growing... > > How big is your /var anyway? > > Armin Thank you! I knew something like that had to exist. 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. Oliver
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