Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:17:17 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" <jm7996@devrycols.edu> To: borehawg <bangpath@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Darn upgrade and handbook!!! Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990311121717.007d9b90@devrycols.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903101956490.554-100000@kagero.gw.total-web .net>
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At 08:40 PM 3/10/99 -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 doesn't seem to be any references to what I'm looking for in
>/usr/share/doc/handbook and my copy of _The_Complete_FreeBSD_ is a little
>dated now (It came with the 2.2.6 disks).
>
>
You're more than halfway there. You need to create a script in
/etc/periodic/daily to clean /var/* for you.
Something along the lines of this might work:
#!/bin/sh
find /var -name {files you want to clean} | xargs rm
should work. You might want to look at 110.clean-tmps for more guidence.
The above example could be done better, there are good reasons not to use
find in that manner.
Anyhow, that should get you started.
Good luck.
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