I hope this isn't too OT.
I setup qmail-pop3 to run via supervise similar to
the way qmail is setup if you follow Life with qmail.
I created the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3/log
directories and created the necessary "run" files (or
so I thought).
Oddly enough, my /var partition had been filling up
at a steady rate of about 5% per day. I couldn't
figure out what was going on. When I did a 'du -ak'
from /var, nothing was changing (at least nothing of
this magnitude). After a lot of poking around, I
found that I hadn't created the
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3/log/run file that
start multi-log.
I stopped qmail-pop3d and all of the sudden my
space on /var returned. Another 'du -ak' showed the
exact same results as before. Same files, same sizes,
but A LOT more space was now available on /var. I
then created the appropriate run file, and I haven't
had a problem since. qmail-pop3d logs to
/var/log/qmail/pop3 like I want it.
Can anyone explain this? Is it possible to open a
file for output without giving it a name? Would that
be the reason that du -ak didn't show a hidden file
slowly eating up disk space because supervise was
trying to report that it couldn't find the "run" file
in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3/log directory?
Am I losing it? :-)
As I mentioned above, everything is fine now, but I'd
still like to know why this happens.
Thanks in advance,
Steve
Suse 6.4 stock
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