From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 4:37:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFEC37B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 04:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13WH1o-00075r-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:36:36 +0300 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:36:36 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: /var/account Message-ID: <20000905143636.A25218@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <20000905123015.C84333@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Paul Herman on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:37:50PM +0200 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 2:31PM up 8 days, 3:22, 6 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.28, 0.25 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Paul Herman : [000905 13:37]: Paul Herman>On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Paul Herman> Paul Herman>> Does anyone know which process writes to this directory??? I have Paul Herman>> a file there that grows wildly and I need to manage this process. Paul Herman> Paul Herman>The file /var/account/acct is written to directly by the kernel. This Paul Herman>allows you to use the commands lastcomm(1) and sa(8) for process Paul Herman>accounting. Thanks, Paul for this info. What I was seeing is the size of the /var slice going up and up and I narrowed on this file. So could that also be the reason I get the message " /kernel: proc: table is full" or this is being caused by something else? All these issues are coming to me after the recent cvsup.... Thanks for ALL your help, man.. -wash -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you. -Ramana Maharshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message