Hi,

I've spent quite a bit of time googling this, reading FAQs etc but I just can't 
seem to find the answer.

We have a red hat server which is running rapidly out of space in the /var 
directory.

In that directory we have a file 'mrtg' which is over 3GB in size (the total 
partition is only 4GB and there's other stuff in there). Without the whole 
boring story , we've had a change of personnel and we (the current people doing 
admin on the system) didn't even realise this thing was running (nothing in the 
'documentation'). We're just getting familiar with this MRTG thing but the 
space issue is pressing now. The question is , how can we (drastically) reduce 
this file size. If we just delete after saving it elsewhere) the file does it 
get recreated from the date of deletion. Can you edit the actual file with vi 
and just strip out lines? Some other way of dealing with it? Now we've brought 
it to the network guys attention , they want to keep it running but they'd like 
us to save the last year's entries.

Anyway, any help/suggestions gratefully received.

Iain



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