Low on Space - VAR Directory.

[Shem_1]

I am getting this error message "....sendmail[912]: NOQUEUE: low on space (have 2, SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in /var/spool/mqueue"

This sure means I am out of space in the /var dir and it is 100% (using bdf). What can I clear off in the var directory to solve this problem.

[Michael Tully]

You could delete all files in /var/tmp that are older than the last boot date.

You could see how big some log files are and trim them. SAM can assist with this.

/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
/var/adm/syslog/mail.log
/var/adm/sw/sw/sw*.log

root's mail
/var/mail

If the mail is not important that has not been sent, you could remove these files as well.

# mailq

# rm /var/spool/mqueue/*

[Michael Tully]

Another important one that I neglected to mention and that is cleaning up old patches.

# cleanup -i

[Con O'Kelly]

I'd aslo look at:
# cleanup -c 2 or cleanup -c 1

This will remove patches that have been superseeded x2 or x1. Note that if you do this you will not be able to remove those patches.

You can also run in preview mode to see space gained eg.
# cleanup -p -c 2.

On many systems this will gain you quite a bit of space in /var.

Cheers
Con

[Con O'Kelly]

Sorry should have said the -c will committ patches (not remove!) thenmsuperseeded once (-c 1) or twice (-c 2), meaning that there is no backup in /var/adm/save, hence you'll not be able to remove them.

Cheers
Con

[Fragon]

Hi, you can remove these files:

#/usr/sbin/sendmail -q -v
#cd /var/spool/mqueue
#rm *

Also you can use ">" to empty other log files!

Good luck!
-ux

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

If cleaning up /var/tmp and trimming /var/adm/syslog/*log or /var/adm/sw/sw*.log didn't help you, then it is time for you to commit the old patches.
Take a backup of /var/adm/sw/save onto a tape.

#cleanup -c 4

This will commit the patches that are superceded atleast 4 times. Once it is done check the space in /var. If it not sufficient, then use 3. Do not go less than 2 (cleanup -c 2). In case if you need to backout any patches, you will run into issues.

That should clearup reasonable space in your /var.

-Sri