Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-03-11 13:27:19, schrieb Mike McCarty: See above, hda1 and hda2 probably have more than enough space to play in. And lots of shops may have used 20's to 40's laying around, available for a $20 bill. I'm not rich by any means, I'm 71 almost retired, on SS, but that doesn't mean

Re: Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:41:34PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Starting to get into topic drift here... On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] 7.5GB? You'd better set the expiry in your email client to a shorter period

Re: Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Mike, have you looked into helping with the VISTA medical program from the VA? I hear it could be a good thing. Just curious if you have heard of it and have any opinion of it? Cheers, Kev I have not heard of it. I have a vague idea the VISTA stands for Volunteers In

Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Charles
I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them.Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the moment) a home machine; I don't *need* the log files, but I don't know what happens if

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 04:52:27 (-0700) skrifaði Charles: I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the moment) a home machine; I

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Charles wrote: I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the moment) a home machine; I don't *need* the log files, but I don't know

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the moment) a home machine; I don't *need*

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the moment) a home

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. Which of these must be present for

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] unimaginable today, my /var/cache alone is 1,273,796 whatevers in du's default format. Which is not a big deal since /var is on /dev/hdd, a That's way more than I would permit on my machine. I not only find

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mike McCarty wrote: That's way more than I would permit on my machine. I not only find it imaginable that /var would be 500MB, my /var is 300MB. And on occasion, I have cleaned out the package manager stuff (though it tends to come back). # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] unimaginable today, my /var/cache alone is 1,273,796 whatevers in du's default format. Which is not a big deal since /var is on /dev/hdd, a That's way more than

Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: Starting to get into topic drift here... On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] 7.5GB? You'd better set the expiry in your email client to a shorter period too. I've taken to gettin rid of old messages in some folders just

Re: Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 March 2006 00:41, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Starting to get into topic drift here... Gee, I hadn't noticed :) [...] And when he called, I was in the middle of trying to figure out Azureus. Its moving data, but I haven't figured out where its putting it, and the stats