On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:42:00PM +0530, R. K. Mehta wrote:
> Dear members
>
> I am facing a piculiar problem. /var directory of my m/c is
> increasing very fast up to 100%. Perhaps this is due to the
> repeat return message to an username. Is it a virus? kindly
> help me how get rid of this situation.
>
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/var is the common sink where almost everything goes in from
mail to logs to downloads. Things which cause var to fill:
a) Your downloads through apt-get (in Debian)
b) Mail (check size of /var/spool/mail/) and delete/ dispose
as per your requirement
c) Check logs sizes /var/log/messages, wtmp, lastlog etc
d) In case your apache data files are there
e) mail loops
To know what is taking up space do a:
du -v -a > var.log
Have a look at this file var.log. All files would be in kb.
At least you now what is taking up the space ...
Bish.
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