The du command is your friend. Have a look at 'man du' Maybe something like: du -d2 /var
Cheers, Paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephan Weaver Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP Server Offline. I Found out the Problem, The /var partation is full. How do i find out where is taking up all the space? Thanks >From: Ean Kingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: DHCP Server Offline. >Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:18:09 -0400 > >On July 15, 2005 10:11 am, Stephan Weaver wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I have a Stand Alone FreeBSD Firewall / Nat / Dhcp Server. > > Everything seems to work fine, up until this morning. Users seem to > > complain they could not get on the network anymore. > > > > Further investigation revealed the dhcp server could not be > > contacted. Further more, only some of the users were online. I am > > guessing that these clients who were online had an ip address from >the > > dhcp server at a previous time and the lease didnt expire as yet. > > And users who were not online, the lease expired and attempted to >contact > > the dhcp server and failed. > > > > I Would appreciate any help or suggestions. > >Set the lease expire time to at least 5 days (7 to 10 is better) and >the renewal time to between 4 and 12 hours. > >Then setup a dhcp monitoring process that will alert you if it fails to >get >an >address or renewal. > >Make sure you have more addresses available than you ever expect to >give >out. >I go with 50% more. I've known some admins that want at least double. > > > Like what to do in the future incase this happens again. > >Setup 2 dhcp servers on the network. If one fails, the other will >hopefully continue to serve addresses. Monitor this one as well. > > > I Would like to find out what had happened. > >Start reading logs. > > > The last thing that i had done to the server was setup, configure > > and install 'ntop'; dont know if this would cause a problem. > > > > Thank you in advance. > > Stephan Weaver > > > > P.S. Please reply to my Directly at @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- >Ean Kingston > >E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org >URL: http://www.hedron.org/ >I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network >administration please feel free to contact me directly. _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
