On Tuesday 17 July 2001 14:16, D. R. Evans wrote:
> On 16 Jul 01, at 23:13, Davy Durham wrote:
> > remember something like that happening to me on 7.x.... what it was, was
> > some process compressing /var/mail and /var/news ... after a long time
> > running it would just take longer and longer... I'd just delete anything
> > in /var/mail and /var/new (***IF YOUR NOT USING THAT AS A MAIL SERVER***)
> > and it may solve your probablem... see if you don't have just an
> > exorbement amount of files in those directories....
That was in 7.1 and the fix was deleting a single '*' from the logrotate
script.
Civileme
>
> Nothing much of anything in /var. This is a very under-used machine.
> Maybe I should try hammering on it more to see if I can cause it to
> fail more often. It's hard to track something that seems to occur at
> random over periods of days/weeks.
>
> Doc
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