Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrt inodes)

2004-09-24 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 13:17, David Bear wrote: > The problem is that I am running snort and its creating hundreds of > entries in /var/log/snort -- one directory for each alert generated by > an IP address. then specific info on that alert in a file under each > directory. So -- aside from the s

Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrt inodes)

2003-01-28 Thread David Bear
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:27:12PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Let's see if I remember the details on this. > > I believe this happens when a file is deleted, but another program still holds > > a filehandle? to it. Thus, if you delete Apache's log fil

Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrt inodes)

2003-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Let's see if I remember the details on this. > I believe this happens when a file is deleted, but another program still holds > a filehandle? to it. Thus, if you delete Apache's log file (for example) but > don't restart Apache, the space the logfile is us