Cleaning /var

[Mark McDonald_2]

Does the box host an application that is logging in to /var? I quite often have problems with app teams filling up file systems especially on the development boxes.

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi
Normally /var also get filled with wtpm* files.

You also trin thse files.

Sagar

[C_V]

So guys eventually the contents of /var/spool files will be automatically removed once the printing has been done or the mail has been sent?

[Dennis Handly]

>eventually the contents of /var/spool files will be automatically removed once the printing has been done or the mail has been sent?

The keyword is eventually. If mail can't be sent, the mail may just sit there.

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

Under /var you can trim all log files.
wtmp
btmp

just give > and filename it will trim the file ex:

>wtmp or >btmp

or you can find big file under /var

cd /
find /var -size +100000 -print

Suraj