From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 8:26:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B66037B491 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcD-096.sub-d.lee.net [208.205.127.96]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA32500; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:25:48 -0600 Message-ID: <3A929A6A.64335B9C@journalstar.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:25:14 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Thomas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: out of inodes on /var References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josh Thomas wrote: > > I just went through and deleted some unnecessary /var files, but is this > just a temporary fix? > > pid 19572 (sendmail), uid 0 on /var: out of inodes > df -i will give you statistics on how many inodes you have left on your different partitions. You need an inode to point to a file, so if you have a lot of files you'll consume your available inodes. > Also, I disabled sendmail is /etc/rc.conf, yet it keeps apparently > running? > 'ps -ax | grep sendmail' will tell you if it's running. You can kill it if it is. /etc/crontab has a few default entries that will use sendmail to send root system information, but they don't launch it as a daemon. > -Josh > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message