topic Re: /var 100% Full ...unable to delete any of the files. in Operating System - HP-UX

/var 100% Full ...unable to delete any of the files.

kumar_unix — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:50:40 GMT

/dev/vg00/lvol7 3080192 3080192 0 100% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol8 2981888 500226 2326622 18% /var/adm/crash
/dev/vg00/lvol6 1032192 709310 302736 70% /users
/dev/vg00/lvol5 2048000 1362452 655783 68% /tmp

bash-2.04$ sudo rm /var/log/ser_mon/ser_mon.Jan
sudo: uid 264485 does not exist in the passwd file!
Sep 28 10:20:14 sudo: 264485 : uid 264485 does not exist in the passwd file! ; TTY=console ; PWD=unknown ; USER=root ; COMMAND=rm
bash-2.04$ Out of disk space for temp file

bash-2.04$ sudo find /var -name core -exec ls {}\;
sudo: uid 264485 does not exist in the passwd file!
Sep 28 10:34:16 sudo: 264485 : uid 264485 does not exist in the passwd file! ; TTY=console ; PWD=unknown ; USER=root ; COMMAND=find
bash-2.04$ Out of disk space for temp file

Unable to delete any of the file under the /var .

Please suggest me on this

Thank u
Kumar

Re: /var 100% Full ...unable to delete any of the files.

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:03:52 GMT

Shalom Kumar,

1. You are using the bash shell to administrer the system. That is not a good idea. Your bash shell is hopelessly out of date.

I recommend logging on the system as root, using the standard shell, which is posix. If you changed the root shell you are really in deep dudu.

You may in fact need to boot the system into single user mode to resolve this problem if the earlier steps do not work.

Your technique to find core files requires space on the /var file system which does not exist.

Try clearing some space with the rm command before trying to collect a list of core files.

SEP

Re: /var 100% Full ...unable to delete any of the files.

Pete Randall — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:14:32 GMT

It would appear that sudo needs space in /var to create a temp file. Unless you can find some way to change sudo's location for that temp file (perhaps some sort of variable, like $SUDO_TMP or something), you will need to log in as root to do your work. And - as Steven pointed out, you definitely do not want to use the Bash shell for root.

Pete

Re: /var 100% Full ...unable to delete any of the files.

kumar_unix — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:36:52 GMT

I got the solution . Logged thru the console as root and cleared up some var files .

after that tried to do ssh to the host name , but i got the below is error message

[xyz@el ~]$ ssh db2
xyz@db2's password:
Connection to xyz closed by remote host.
Connection to xyz closed.

Then ran the pwconv command thru the console to sync up passwd file !! worked fine ..

Thank you all for your suggestion .

Kumar

Re: /var 100% Full ...unable to delete any of the files.

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:16:20 GMT

Hi,
Another alternative way to solve this issue, try lsof ot see if there is a process got stuck and eats /var ;

# lssof /var

if yes , kill it.

Re: /var 100% Full ...unable to delete any of the files.

singh sanjeev — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:08:42 GMT

try to remove the old subset of patches via

cleanup -c 1