Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:24:31 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: borehawg <bangpath@bellsouth.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Darn upgrade and handbook!!! Message-ID: <19990311172431.A5625@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903101956490.554-100000@kagero.gw.total-web.net>; from borehawg on Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 08:40:18PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903101956490.554-100000@kagero.gw.total-web.net>
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On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 08:40:18PM -0500, borehawg wrote:
> Heyas.
> My /var partition fills up once a day from the volume of mail I get
> from various lists. I remember when I had 2.2.6 running, there was a
> ./daily command in /etc that I could use that cleaned up all the temp
> stuff in /var (I think thats how I did it). But now that I am running 3.1,
> there is a directory called /etc/periodic/daily that has executable
> scripts such as "100.clean-disks" and "110.clean-tmps". I can't figure
> out what these do. So far, the only way I can clear out the /var partition
> is to reboot (ugh).
There is a new program called periodic that runs the scripts. Haven't
you looked at /etc/crontab or `man periodic` Do that and everything will
clear!
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