Hello,
On a RH 8.0 PC, connected to the internet by dialup, I have found
68019 empty log files. I came to realize it when the dialup script
said that it could not create lock in /var for lack of space. Since
there *was* space, and I remembered reading somewhere that more than
10000 files per directory make ext3 choke, I looked around and found
those files. Namely, the output of
cd /var/
ls -lrt log|grep vgetty|cat -n > /tmp/vgettystrange
looks like this (last five lines, "compressed" for clarity):
68015 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4.1
68016 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4
68017 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4.2
68018 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4.1.1
68019 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.2
Owner and group are always root, I cut that to fit on one email line,
as mentioned.
Where do they come from? Any comment?
TIA,
Marco Fioretti
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