topic Re: Low in Space message even with directory empty in Operating System - HP-UX

Low in Space message even with directory empty

Diadina Cotte — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:40:48 GMT

Hello recently the server is posting this message:

Sep 25 14:40:59 apache last message repeated 7 times
Sep 25 14:41:14 apache sendmail[744]: [NOQUEUE]: low on space (have 0, SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in /var/spool/mqueue)

I removed all the file in the /var/spool/mqueue directory and reboot and the box keeps posting the message. What can I do to fix this????

Thank you!!

Re: Low in Space message even with directory empty

Christopher McCray_1 — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:43:25 GMT

Is this it's own file system?

if not, what does bdf of /var say?

Hope this helps

Chris

Re: Low in Space message even with directory empty

Diadina Cotte — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:45:35 GMT

Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol8 769536 701069 0 100% /var

WOW!!!

Re: Low in Space message even with directory empty

Darrell Allen — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:54:39 GMT

Hi,

Check for large files or a large number of files in /var/tmp. Also check files in /var/adm. Particularly, /var/adm/wtmp could be large and need to be truncated. Also suspect are /var/adm/syslog/syslog, OLDsyslog, and mail.log.

If you need to truncate a system log file, don't rm it. Backup the file (to a filesystem with space or to a tape) and zero out the file using ">filename" syntax. If you rm a file like syslog, you will still have a space issue because syslogd has the file open. Space won't be released until syslogd is restarted.

Darrell

Re: Low in Space message even with directory empty

Christopher McCray_1 — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:55:09 GMT

Yes, you are very full.

Start looking for large log files and try to get rid of them. Also take a look at this link:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x0be7c6af36b7d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

for the sendmail stuff and this one for assisting in cleaning out /var:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x2cdf91ccb36bd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

and

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe4b814a24fd1d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Hope this helps

Chris

Re: Low in Space message even with directory empty

Sean OB_1 — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:58:31 GMT

also try the following:

cleanup -F
or
cleanup -i

to cleanup old patch files.

also:

cd /var
du -sk *

This will show which directories are using the most space. Then simply navigate to the directory and keep issuing "du -sk *" at each directory to determine what ones are the hogs.

Then remove/truncate anything that you can.

Other areas that may be big:
/var/opt/omni
/var/opt/perf
/var/adm
/var/tmp

Sean

Re: Low in Space message even with directory empty

Diadina Cotte — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:18:08 GMT

Well I managed thanks to all of you to lower it down to:

Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol8 769536 539014 153568 78% /var

Very Helpful

;-) Thanks!