Spacct?

[Victor Semaska_3]

Greetings,

I'm having a problem with a V5.1B PK5 cluster where the /var disk is running out of space because of a lot of /var/adm/acct/Spacct?. files. These files are obviously related to accounting. Do I need these files and if not how do I stop them from being created.

Thanks,
Vic

[Ivan Ferreira]

>>> Do I need these files and if not how do I stop them from being created.

It depends, if you will ever do some auditing, then you will need the files.

You can configure audit with:

sysman auditconfig

[Vladimir Fabecic · Accepted solution]

That should be related to accounting.
Do you need accounting?
If not disable it by:
# crontab -e adm
Remove the entry of "/usr/sbin/acct/runacct" from crontab
Execute "shutacct"
then do
"rcmgr set ACCOUNTING NO"
This will disable accounting.
Depend of system accounting may eat 100MB per day of disk space.
If you need accounting then you must find another way, for example script that will clean up /var.

[Victor Semaska_3]

Thanks to both.

They do use up a lot of space per day. Decided to be cautious and leave accounting running but add an entry in root's crontab to delete all that are more than 7 days old. That should keep their space usage down.

Vic