From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 11:47:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A4F16A41C for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:47:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@idea-anvil.net) Received: from jail.idea-anvil.net (idea-anvil.net [63.226.12.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060AD43D1F for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:47:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@idea-anvil.net) Received: from idea-anvil.net (vaio [10.0.0.99]) by jail.idea-anvil.net (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j52BlwhV043460 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 04:47:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from james@idea-anvil.net) From: James To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 04:47:34 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506020447.35717.james@idea-anvil.net> Subject: ppp filling /var X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:47:59 -0000 After ppp runs for a few days: # df Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 49M 67M 42% / /dev/ad0s1f 252M 18K 232M 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1g 8.1G 1.1G 6.4G 15% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M 252M -20.0M 109% /var <----!!! procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc # du -h /var ... snip ... 12M /var After killing ppp: # df Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 49M 67M 42% / /dev/ad0s1f 252M 18K 232M 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1g 8.1G 1.1G 6.4G 15% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M 12M 219M 6% /var <---- procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc # du -h /var ... snip ... 12M /var Anyone know how to fix this? Google was no help. note: this is not a problem with /var/log/* filling up, as du will show, or any file written to disk... its *something* else Full output of du -h # du -h /var 2.0K /var/account 2.0K /var/at/jobs 2.0K /var/at/spool 6.0K /var/at 10.0K /var/backups 4.0K /var/crash 2.0K /var/cron/tabs 4.0K /var/cron 2.0K /var/db/ipf ... snip ... (/var/db/pkg/*) 2.2M /var/db/pkg 4.0K /var/db/ports/gettext 6.0K /var/db/ports 28K /var/db/portaudit 474K /var/db/tripwire/report 6.5M /var/db/tripwire 9.8M /var/db 2.0K /var/empty 2.0K /var/heimdal 1.7M /var/log 8.0K /var/mail 4.0K /var/msgs 2.0K /var/preserve 2.0K /var/run/ppp 94K /var/run 2.0K /var/rwho 2.0K /var/spool/lock 2.0K /var/spool/lpd 2.0K /var/spool/mqueue 2.0K /var/spool/opielocks 2.0K /var/spool/output/lpd 4.0K /var/spool/output 2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Preserve 2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Sequence 2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Status 2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Temp 2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Xqtdir 12K /var/spool/uucp 2.0K /var/spool/uucppublic 4.0K /var/spool/clientmqueue 32K /var/spool 2.0K /var/tmp/vi.recover 112K /var/tmp/etc/defaults 2.0K /var/tmp/etc/X11 4.0K /var/tmp/etc/gnats 52K /var/tmp/etc/isdn 2.0K /var/tmp/etc/kerberosIV 294K /var/tmp/etc/mail 56K /var/tmp/etc/mtree 16K /var/tmp/etc/namedb 50K /var/tmp/etc/periodic/daily 6.0K /var/tmp/etc/periodic/monthly 42K /var/tmp/etc/periodic/security 18K /var/tmp/etc/periodic/weekly 118K /var/tmp/etc/periodic 4.0K /var/tmp/etc/ppp 2.0K /var/tmp/etc/skel 108K /var/tmp/etc/ssh 10.0K /var/tmp/etc/ssl 22K /var/tmp/etc/uucp 1.3M /var/tmp/etc 1.3M /var/tmp 22K /var/yp 2.0K /var/games/hackdir/save 4.0K /var/games/hackdir 2.0K /var/games/larn 2.0K /var/games/phantasia 10.0K /var/games 13M /var