[NTLUG:Discuss] /var out of space....help please

[Dan Carlson]

This could be caused by a problem with logrotate, where it continually
archives files in /var/log/news and /var/log/mail.  This problem occured on
my system, consuming several hundred megabytes of disk space before I found
it.  Here is Mandrake's advisory on the problem:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/MDKA-2000-009-1.php3?dis=7.1

Dan Carlson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Urish" <j at dalwan.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] /var out of space....help please


> check /var/logs for large crap...
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> At 08:05 PM 10/17/00, you wrote:
> >* greg at nas-inet.com [2000.10.17 19:58]:
> >: "./aal" wrote:
> >: > (10-16-2000)
> >: > df:
> >: > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >: > /dev/hda5             988M  238M  700M  25% /
> >: > /dev/hda1              91M   10M   76M  12% /boot
> >: > /dev/hda7             1.0G  737M  245M  75% /home
> >: > /dev/hda8             2.9G  2.4G  297M  89% /usr
> >: > /dev/hda9             3.3G  2.7G  514M  84% /opt
> >: > /dev/hda10            494M  381k  468M   0% /tmp
> >: > /dev/hda11            380M  370M     0 100% /var
> >: > /dev/hdb5             1.6G  1.4G  186M  88% /hdb/usr
> >: > /dev/hdb6             1.4G  1.0G  318M  77% /hdb/opt
> >: > /dev/hdb8             213M  129M   73M  64% /hdb/home
> >: > /dev/hdd1             2.9G  1.8G 1005M  64% /hdd
> >:
> >: Your /tmp is full.  Linux (*nix) programmers use /tmp allot for files
> >: <snip />
> >: --
> >: Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com>
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> >wrong...look closely.  /tmp is barely being used.
> >--
> >cameron
> >[ Is it possible to be totally partial? ]
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> Jay Urish
> Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
> www.dalwan.net
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