From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 17:51:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22132 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:51:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21931 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:50:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA12740; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:48:51 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: guff@esther.falconsoft.com (Tim Gustafson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var fills up every night? Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 00:51:11 GMT Message-ID: <3577407d.939647992@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:26:46 -0400 (EDT), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >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? If you dont already, add the line in /etc/syslog.conf kern.* /var/log/kernel and see exactly when at night the disk fills up... Perhaps it coincides with the /etc/daily script ? or when log files get rotated ? ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message