/var full. Can I delete /var/stm/logs/os/log???.raw

[Michael Bluemm]

Hi,
while looking for some big files in /var, I found the directory /var/stm/logs/os , which includes more than 300 files named log1.raw, log2.raw, ... log315.raw.
OS HP-UX 11.0
What are this directory and these files for, can I delete some?
Thanks, Michael

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

These are the hardware diagnostic logs. You can delete all execept the latest one.

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

You can delete them just save the 2 last
for any case.

Caesar

[Pete Randall]

Michael,

Those are logs for the diagnotic program Support Tools Manager. I think you can delete them.

You should also look for other large files. Try "du -sk /var/* |sort -n" to give you a sorted list of the largest files/directories under /var and continue to use the "du" command to drill down into those directories until you find the culprits.

Caution - do not delete anything out /var/adm/sw, you will destroy the ability to remove patches. Use the "cleanup" command instead to commit old versions of patches. See "man cleanup".

You can also use SAM to trim log files which live under /var.


Pete

[RAC_1]

/var/stm/logs/os logs are generated by STM.

You can view them with cclogview command. Keep latest 3. Other you can delete safely.

[Ken Hubnik_2]

Some applications always create large files in /var/tmp. Also there are lots of log files that can get really big in /var.

[Elena Leontieva]

Michael,

The following file in /var/stm/logs/os should NOT be removed:
memlog
logN.taw.cur
ccbootlog

Elena

[Michael Bluemm]

Thank you all,
so easy to get 130 MB more in 10 seconds.
Now my /var is filled only by 20%, that should be enough for the next days.
Nice weekend, Michael

[twang]

Release space from /var:
- remove core dump:
# find /var -name core -exec rm {} \;
- empty logfiles:
# > log_file
- cleanup old patches
# cleanup -c 2
(before you do this, create an Ignite backup of your system)
("-c 2" means only commit patches that have been superceded 2 or more times.)