On Thursday 04 October 2001 00:34, you wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:21, Dave Salovesh wrote:
> > My /var partiton is out of inodes on my DNS server.
> >
> > 
> > I've tried variations of rm and rmdir, but they all fail for one reason
> > or another - "too many arguments" for rm, for one thing, and various
> > messages that I'm trying to remove a directory for another - even when I
> > -df it or --ignore-fail-on... it.  I just want all those files gone.
> >
> > How to I clear out that directory?
>
> Did you try :
>
> rm -rf /var/spool/mail
>
>

last time i had something similar, i ended up
deleting piecemeal, such that rm -f wouldn't
give 'too many arguments'

fixed with a logrotate update istr

stephen

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