In the last episode (Nov 03), Olaf Greve said: > When doing some maintenance on my fall-back server I ran into > something weird. When running df it turned out /var was for 90% full. > I then manually deleted some files (as root over SSH), amongst which > the 'maillog' logfiles in /var/log, I also killed sendmail (as it was > generating the big log files, and at present I don't need to run it > on that machine), and just to be sure I created a new 'maillog file > of 0 length.
Sendmail may be generating the events, but syslogd is the process that opens and writes to logfiles. Send it a HUP signal and it will close and reopen them, which should free up your missing space. If that doesn't do it, install lsof and run "lsof +L 1", which will tell you if there are any other processes holding open filehandles to deleted files. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"