topic Re: VAR full (help!) in Operating System - HP-UX

VAR full (help!)

Vogra — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:26:51 GMT

Hi All!
the file /var/stm/logs/sys/diaglogd_activity_log is increasing and the var dir is full.
I have the directory /var/adm/crash/crash.4 related with the "problem" last night. All the things toke place after the reboot last night. The send mail is show message that is impossible to create the file because it already exists.
Can I delete the other directories
/var/adm/crash/crash.? ?

What I have to do?

Re: VAR full (help!)

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:31:54 GMT

Hi Claudio:

If you do not want have your 'crash' files analyzed, then, yes, you can delete them.

See also this thread for other files to remove to gain space in /var:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x3feac6af36b7d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: VAR full (help!)

harry d brown jr — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:33:40 GMT

You can delete them if you don't need to send the data to hp for analysis.

Re: VAR full (help!)

G. Vrijhoeven — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:33:49 GMT

Claudio,

try man savecrash, this should give you some options.

hope this will help,

Gideon

Re: VAR full (help!)

Vogra — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:35:26 GMT

ok! I did that...
and what about /var/stm/logs/sys/diaglogd_activity_log file ?

Thanx.

Re: VAR full (help!)

Thierry Poels_1 — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:36:43 GMT

Hi,

if you need space in /var in a hurry you can move the crash files to somewhere else, and decide later if they are usefull to you or not.
BTW, as mentionned by James, there are already a number of threads concerning space recovery in /var.

good luck,
Thierry.

Re: VAR full (help!)

Santosh Nair_1 — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:41:02 GMT

If you need to get rid of the file, you can. Just remember to stop the diagnostic subsystem before doing so:

/sbin/init.d/diagnostic stop
rm /var/stm/logs/sys/diaglogd_activity_log
/sbin/init.d/diagnostic start

-Santosh

Re: VAR full (help!)

ajay kumar rastogi — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:47:05 GMT

Hi !
You can add an entry in crontab for removing the undesired logs.The periodicity can be chosen either on a daily basis or on a weekly basis.

Re: VAR full (help!)

Vogra — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:51:08 GMT

Santosh,
I did it. After I start diagnostic again, the file start to increase. Is it the problem warning? Can my system is in problem? If yes, what I have to do...?

thanx.

Re: VAR full (help!)

Santosh Nair_1 — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:59:39 GMT

If the log file is growing rapidly then that would indicate that there might be a hardware problem. Check the log files in /var/stm/log/os using the STM logtool utility to determine the cause of the logs. Hope this helps.

-Santosh

Re: VAR full (help!)

Marcin Wicinski — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:00:02 GMT

Hi,

1. put crash.4 directory on a DDS tape and send it to analysis,
2. use cleanup -c (if you have HPUX 11.0 and -c option is not available install PHCO_24347) - it will remove all patches that were superseded at least times.

Later,

Re: VAR full (help!)

Frederic Sevestre — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:11:49 GMT

Hi,
In adition of the cleanup -c 1, if you want to commit some patches :
swmodify -x patch_commit=true -f
where file contains the list of the patches you want to commit :
PHxx_xxxxx.*

Re: VAR full (help!)

linuxfan — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:18:41 GMT

Hi claudia,

Also check your /var/stm/logs/os directory.

But the best thing to do is to check the disk usage in /var and analyze
du -kx /var |sort -n > /tmp/du.out

-Ramesh

Re: VAR full (help!)

Deshpande Prashant — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:33:40 GMT

Hi
Is your diagnostic version grater than A25.10 (March 2001)? If not upgrade it.

Thanks.
Prashant Deshpande.