Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-03-11 13:27:19, schrieb Mike McCarty: > >See above, hda1 and hda2 probably have more than enough space to play > >in. And lots of shops may have used 20's to 40's laying around, > >available for a $20 bill. I'm not rich by any means, I'm 71 & almost > >retired, on SS, but that doesn't

Re: Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Mike, have you looked into helping with the VISTA medical program from the VA? I hear it could be a good thing. Just curious if you have heard of it and have any opinion of it? Cheers, Kev I have not heard of it. I have a vague idea the "VISTA" stands for "Volunteers In Ser

Re: Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:41:34PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Starting to get into topic drift here... > > >On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > > [snip] > > >>>7.5GB? You'd better set the expiry in your email client

Re: Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 March 2006 00:41, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: > >Starting to get into topic drift here... Gee, I hadn't noticed :) [...] And when he called, I was in the middle of trying to figure out Azureus. Its moving data, but I haven't figured out where its putting it, and the sta

Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: Starting to get into topic drift here... On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] 7.5GB? You'd better set the expiry in your email client to a shorter period too. I've taken to gettin rid of old messages in some folders just to

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: > >[snip] > unimaginable today, my /var/cache alone is 1,273,796 whatevers in du's default format. Which is not a big deal since /var is on /dev/hdd, a >>>

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mike McCarty wrote: That's way more than I would permit on my machine. I not only find it imaginable that /var would be < 500MB, my /var is < 300MB. And on occasion, I have cleaned out the package manager stuff (though it tends to come back). # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Availa

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] unimaginable today, my /var/cache alone is 1,273,796 whatevers in du's default format. Which is not a big deal since /var is on /dev/hdd, a That's way more than I would permit on my machine. I not only find it

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: >>>I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, >>> and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in >>> them. >>> >>> >>>Which of these mu

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the moment) a home mac

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: >I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and >/var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. > > >Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at > the moment) a home machine; I don't *ne

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Charles wrote: I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the moment) a home machine; I don't *need* the log files, but I don't know

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 04:52:27 (-0700) skrifaði Charles: > I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and > /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. > > > Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the > moment) a home machine;

Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Charles
I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib.  These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them.Which of these must be present for the machine to run?  This is (at the moment) a home machine; I don't *need* the  log files, but I don't know what happens