On Thu Oct 19, 2000 at 06:06:12PM +0300, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:

> Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches,
> and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1)
> that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories.
> 
> Let's also assume that when you type:
>   [root@db2 mail]# rm *
> you get:
>   bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
> 
> any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :)

Wouldn't:

rm -rf /var/log/mail; mkdir /var/log/mail

work?

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