[clug] Ext3 /var is full but not?

[Michael Still]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2003, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> 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?

Possibly. Having removed the mailman RPM, the directory has only one file
in it a couple of days later, so it looks like it's fixed. Perhaps Redhat
needs to think more about this sort of thing, it might confuse Granny when
she uses Linux as her desktop.

Anyone here work for Redhat?

Mikal

PS: No, Ben moved on.

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