var is mysteriously clogged

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 08:27:29AM -0500, Sy Ali wrote
> Upon rebooting, my mysterious issue went away.

  Repeat after me...
  linux != Windows
  Thou shalst not rebooteth

  Since it was syslogd holding the files open (as per your previous
message) all you had to do was to restart syslogd.  That should've
released the filespace.  There is a "postrotate" clause in logrotate
that can do this for you automatically.  I use syslog-ng which uses a
"reload" option; syslogd might use "restart".  Check the man pages for
your software.  Here's my /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng file...


# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.logrotate,v 1.2 2004/07/18 02:25:02 dragonheart Exp $
#
# Syslog-ng logrotate snippet for Gentoo Linux
# contributed by Michael Sterrett
#

/var/log/messages {
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
    endscript
}


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