From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 21: 6:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E78637BAE1 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:06:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA31346; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:06:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D30EDA.978481AB@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:06:34 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0316 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pea@andrewpea.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running out of room on /var References: <001401bf9042$2a131c40$0201a8c0@andrewpea.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Pea wrote: > > I'm running out of room on /var. Can someone tell me which log files I can > safely delete? > > I have a bunch of old maillog, messages and Sendmail log files that I'm sure > I don't need to keep. Anything old that you're not sure you need you can safely move to a different partition that has space. There is no reason the archived files have to stay on /var. If you still don't need it N number of months later, just delete it. Doug -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message