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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
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Dan Busarow wrote:

> syslogd, sendmail, anything else with a log file in /var/log
> is potentially keeping /var busy.

Don't forget system accounting will also have to be turned off (type
accton with no arguments). This got me confused for a while, since I
couldn't even umount /var after doing `shutdown now'. Then the light
dawned ...

-- 
Ben Smithurst                                          ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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