From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 8:25: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7946E1522F for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA26687; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:24:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA25871; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:24:31 +0100 (MET) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.2/8.9.1) id RAA05648; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:24:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990311172431.A5625@sr.se> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:24:31 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: borehawg Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Darn upgrade and handbook!!! Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from borehawg on Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 08:40:18PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message