fred >>> expert 11/06/00 22:47 >>> fred >>> expert 11/06/00 22:38 >>> fred >>> expert 11/06/00 22:01 >>> fred >>> expert 11/06/00 21:55 >>> This is a problem with the logrotate scripts. they loop somewhere and create multiple /var/log/mail/fil.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz style files. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Puff@NLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 11:53 AM Subject: [expert] Postfix filing up my /VAR!!! > Hello, > > I just had a machine go down on me yesterday. Kept giving me "no free space on drive" errors. It turned out that my /VAR partition was messed up, and after forcing a check, indeed it was full. > > I found a directory called MAIL inside /VAR/LOG that had THOUSANDS of files in it, taking up literally hundreds of megabytes. They appeared to be all log files from Postfix, my SMTP program. > > My question #1: Why are these here, when I have my mail log as: /VAR/LOG/MAIL.LOG? That has been working fine. Why is there a second location that seems to be keeping log files forever? > > Question #2: I downloaded Tom's linux floppy, and created it. I booted this on my system, and tried using the fsck, as well as exfsck (not sure of exact syntax). Both programs reported that any drive I checked was not a ext2 file system (which they are), and would not go any further. I did: > > fsck /dev/hda7 > > Why didn't this work? I ended up forcing my Mandrake 7.1 to do a check during bootup by changing the year to 2001 and rebooting. It checked, fixed errors, and all was well. I had errors on two out of four partitions. I tried the fsck from Tom's disk on all four partitions, and it would not work. > > What did I do wrong? > > And more importantly, how do I turn off Postfix's creating additional log files in /var/log/mail/??? > > Bob > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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