From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 7 13:20:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F5F16A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:20:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8EA43D49 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:20:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([82.161.136.218]:9947 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cy8oy-0009sQ-09; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:20:56 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2613A15487E; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:21:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.111] (82-197-198-30.dsl.cambrium.nl [82.197.198.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7916D37022; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:20:56 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <42076B31.1070704@scii.nl> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:20:49 +0100 From: albi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050123) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren References: <200502072248.41306.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200502072248.41306.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var Full X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:20:57 -0000 Warren wrote: > im trying to get cacti working, but since im using a small P2 300 machine with > a small hdd my /var has suddenly become full and im wodering what is safe and > not safe so to speak to del in the /var dir .. the following are the dir's i > have. --- cut ---- > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 7 03:09 log > drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 512 Feb 4 21:41 mail these two directories are probably the ones you want to look at, some logfiles might have grown pretty big, and maybe there's loads of mail in /var/mail ? (switching to email for your users in their home-dirs is an idea)