Re: How to clear an improperly unreferenced file in multi-user mode?

2005-11-05 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:00:25PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: > Hi, > > When doing some maintenance on my fall-back server I ran into something > weird. When running df it turned out /var was for 90% full. I then > manually deleted some files (as root over SSH), amongst which the > 'maillog' logf

Re: How to clear an improperly unreferenced file in multi-user mode?

2005-11-03 Thread Eric F Crist
On Nov 3, 2005, at 7:00 AM, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, When doing some maintenance on my fall-back server I ran into something weird. When running df it turned out /var was for 90% full. I then manually deleted some files (as root over SSH), amongst which the 'maillog' logfiles in /var/log, I

Re: How to clear an improperly unreferenced file in multi-user mode?

2005-11-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 03), Olaf Greve said: > When doing some maintenance on my fall-back server I ran into > something weird. When running df it turned out /var was for 90% full. > I then manually deleted some files (as root over SSH), amongst which > the 'maillog' logfiles in /var/log, I also

How to clear an improperly unreferenced file in multi-user mode?

2005-11-03 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, When doing some maintenance on my fall-back server I ran into something weird. When running df it turned out /var was for 90% full. I then manually deleted some files (as root over SSH), amongst which the 'maillog' logfiles in /var/log, I also killed sendmail (as it was generating the big