killall -HUP syslogd
if syslog has the files open it won't release the disk space unless you
HUP it ..
same with httpd if you log to /var..
Dave.
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Michael Turley wrote:
> Does anyone know off the top of their heads what
> command to use to find files bigger than 5Megs in the
> var directory - something like find /var -size 5 or du
> /var | sort -rn?
>> du reports that my var system is full but no matter
> what I get rid of (e.g rm'ed and touched all logfiles
> in /var/tmp) there is no impact on the directory size.
> Any ideas?
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