From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 7 13:29:09 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 7F36216A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:29:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-04.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CBB343D45 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:29:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com) Received: (qmail 306 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2005 13:29:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warren.shinji.nq.nu) (203.206.228.43) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 7 Feb 2005 13:29:07 -0000 From: Warren To: albi Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:28:54 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200502072248.41306.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> <42076B31.1070704@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <42076B31.1070704@scii.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502072328.55634.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> 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 13:29:09 -0000 On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:20 pm, albi wrote: > 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) Sadly neither the log dir nor mail had much in it since they where the 1st 2 i also thought of. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu