From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 06:27:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA05796 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 06:27:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from esther.falconsoft.com (guff@esther.falconsoft.com [206.112.36.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA05783 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 06:27:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from guff@esther.falconsoft.com) Received: from localhost (guff@localhost) by esther.falconsoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA25730 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:26:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from guff@esther.falconsoft.com) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:26:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Gustafson Reply-To: Tim Gustafson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /var fills up every night? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello i have several FreeBSD machines, all of which run great, except for one that every night, the /var file system fills up to 108%. by the time I get there the next day to see what's filling it up, it's down to like 9%. could this be a temporary file or something that's gumming up the works? anyonw who can help me, please reply! thanx! tim details: normal file system df: -------------------------------------------------------- Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 31775 13448 15785 46% / /dev/wd0s1f 1867031 339317 1378352 20% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29727 2399 24950 9% /var snippet of info from nightly log e-mail: -------------------------------------------------------- >Checking subsystem status: > >disks: >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/wd0a 31775 13452 15781 46% / >/dev/wd0s1f 1867031 339583 1378086 20% /usr >/dev/wd0s1e 29727 29634 -2285 108% /var To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message