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Date:      Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:20:49 +0100
From:      albi <albi@scii.nl>
To:        Warren <shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var Full
Message-ID:  <42076B31.1070704@scii.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200502072248.41306.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
References:  <200502072248.41306.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>

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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)



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