Filesytem Filling Up

[Bill Thorsteinson]

I have had problems with programs spinning on an error
condtion. If each try produces an error message then the device with the log file rapidly fills up.

Run tail and head on the file if you still have it. It could have been running for a day or two before you ran into space problems.

The cron log might be for an 'at' job. I can't check for
HP-UX right now.

Some programs will fill up the log device, then stay in
an output wait state until space is available. Once you
make space they resume their output.

[Tim D Fulford]

I would use
ksh
for i in $( fuser -c /var 2>/dev/null)
do
ps -fp $i | grep $i
done

This will list all active proccesses & PID's on /var. You can then investigate where they are writing.

I usually start with a large list & it soon trimms down to only a few "unsure of" process.

Tim