Cleanup /var File System

[walztoni]

Our /var FS seems to be slowly filling up. I am wondering if there's some routine cleanup maintenance that I should be doing. The directory "/var/opt/sanmgr/commandview/server/logs/performance/" looks like it contains lots of daily log files. How can these files be removed? Manually, with command view or some other way? Thanks.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Have a look at this doc.

Title: CommandView SDM update from version 1.06 - CPU utilization 100%

Europe
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000079977288

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http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000079977288

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Bill Thorsteinson]

I generally install logrotate and
configure it to cleanup old log files.

I am also starting to deploy cfengine
and use its tidy option to remove old
files.

Eeither option could be applied in this case.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Have you verified the directory that uses more space with the du command?

cd /var
du -xsk *

Check for mailboxes that never was readed also. Patch files can also use a lot of space.

[MarkSyder]

Check the following daily:

/var/adm/btmp (bad user logins)
/var/adm/sulog
/var/adm/wtmp
/var/adm/cron (log and OLDlog)
/var/adm/lp (log and OLDlog)
/var/adm/syslog (syslog.log, mail.log, and OLD versions of both).

If btmp gets large trim it using SAM (after making sure you've checked who made the bad login attempts). Trim wtmp periodically. Trim syslog.log after you've scanned it for errors/warnings.

Run cleanup -c1 to remove old patches.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)