[ILUG] /var system full

[Michael Turley]

I actually panicked and rebooted! Next time I'll know.

--- Dave Airlie <David.Airlie at ul.ie> wrote:
> 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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