[clug] Ext3 /var is full but not?

Martin Pool mbp at samba.org
Mon Apr 14 11:25:25 EST 2003


On 11 Apr 2003, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Brett Worth wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Michael Still wrote:
> >
> > > It's a Redhat 7.3 box. /var/log/mailman has 129,612 files in it. $DEITY
> > > knows why,

Perhaps logrotate has been rotating the empty files and not removing
them?

Logrotate is a good tool, but it often seems to be set up wierdly by
default in Debian and RedHat.

-- 
Martin 


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