var is mysteriously clogged

[Paul Sutton]

Hi

Is there a cron job or similar that periodically cleans the system, as 
Linux is designed to be on 24/7 then it would perhaps be run at midnight 
when a server in quieter,  so perhaps if you system is not running 24/7 
the computer is turned off, when this would noramally run.

While nuking the system and reinstalling may be a good option,  this is 
not an option in a mission critical environment, perhaps its worth 
investigating how to fix this,  as the knowledge would come in handy 
should you ever be in a similar situation when it needs to be fixed or 
should someone else on the lug be in such a situation.

perhaps looking at your cron setup and see what runs, if you see 
something that clearly does something e.g clears /var/log at a certain 
time then you could try that,

Not sure this is just a wild guess, I know log files can be pretty big 
after awhile.  This has to be fixable other wise if its a case of nuke / 
reinstall you may as well use windows, as you would do that with 
windows,  the point of Linux is that you don't have to or at least not 
as often.

Hope this is useful,  perhaps comments on if this is the right solution.

Paul
Sy Ali wrote:

>[root at localhost ~]# cd /var
>[root at localhost var]# du
>37M     .
>
>[root at localhost var]# df
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda6             1.9G  1.8G     0 100% /var
>
>
>Physically going there reports 37M of stuff.  However, somehow things
>are mysteriously clogged.  This is a problem because rsync is too
>stupid to sync this partition with another of the same size, because
>it doesn't like functioning as expected when running low on disk space
>on the target. *mutter*
>
>I haven't had any recent issues with the setup at all.. so nothing
>leaps to mind when I noticed this problem.
>
>Ideas?
>
>I'm probably going to just nuke the lot of it and reinstall my distro,
>so that's an option.
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