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Date:      Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:38:19 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Phantom /var full messages
Message-ID:  <1000088FF03ADBA72E7EFA80@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <41408AB8.2080905@solid-state-logic.com>
References:  <44A044721750C2FA9877513F@utd49554.utdallas.edu> <41408AB8.2080905@solid-state-logic.com>

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--On Thursday, September 09, 2004 05:54:16 PM +0100 Martin Hepworth 
<martinh@solid-state-logic.com> wrote:

> Paul
>
> who are you running du as?
> du will only report file sizes that it has access to. So if you don't run
> du as root you can get odd results...
>
Sorry, I should have mentioned that.  I'm running both df and du as root. 
I ssh in to the box using my account and then su to root.  (I don't allow 
root to ssh in to any of my boxes.)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu



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