[clug] Ext3 /var is full but not?

[Howard Lowndes]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Michael Still wrote:

> 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?

Yep, there is a bug in the RH MAilman logrotate.  Same thing happened to 
me.

> 
> Mikal
> 
> PS: No, Ben moved on.
> 
> 

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