That's your best bet John. As long as you know that you'll loose
everything in that logfile. But if you don't need the data in that
file - that method will recover the most drive space.
Chuck
---------- Original Message -----------
From: John Sikes <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:13:11 -0600
Subject: [BlueOnyx:09439] /var getting full
> Received a message that my /var partition was getting full. Thought
> it was going to be the spool again, but found that btmp was huge.
> Looks like I got hit very hard in the past 24/48 hours with failed
> login attempts. Looking for a quick way to purge the file to regain
> space. I identified the top 10 offenders and blocked their IP's for
> now and just need to reclaim space.
>
> Can I just cat /dev/null > /var/log/btmp? Is there a better, more
> correct way to clear up some space quick?
>
> Thanks
>
> John Sikes
Thank you very much for the quick response.
John
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