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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:15:34 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cleaning out log files? [top-posting corrected]
Message-ID:  <17770.29814.361454.750347@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <200611261129.03495.odilist@sonic.net>
References:  <200611261037.18806.odilist@sonic.net> <20061126185408.GB686@pubbox.net> <200611261129.03495.odilist@sonic.net>

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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



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