do you know what process is making it grow ?
use fuser or lsof on it to search for processes having it open.
then try to understand what the hell it is.
use "file" on it
use "less" on it if it is acscii ...
i just can see why a file under /usr/lib should grow like this.
there must be something wrong with it.
pascal
-----Original Message-----
From: Maoie Florentino [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 12:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fwd: Question about a huge file in /usr/lib Revisited
> I certany "would NOT" recomend removing "libdbm" even after you have
read
> the docs, if you do Kerneld for one will baarf, so that means if you
have a
> modular system, hard luck.
>
> I would need to know a lot more details of the system in question
before
> saying more, it seems way to big a file, but i would "strongly" advise
> against deleting it at this point.
>
It is I who sent the original message. Sorry if I caused
some confusion.
Actually, the file I was going to remove was libdbm-. The filename
comes with the "-" at the end.
Here's a snapshot of my directory
hobbes:/usr/lib/libndbm>dir
total 2344
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67832779 Aug 21 1997 libdbm-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9252 Aug 21 1997 libndbm-linux.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14914 Aug 21 1997 libndbm.a
I'm running slackware 3.4 with kernel version 2.0.29 on a Pentium 166
with 32 MB.
The file is still growing. Last time I looked it was about 65000000
bytes.
What do you need to know to be able to help me?
Thanks to those people who answered!
Mu Florentino
SFINet, Inc.
