[BlueOnyx:09440] Re: /var getting full

[Chuck Tetlow]

That's your best bet John.  As long as you know that you'll loose everything in that logfile.  But if you don't need the data in that file - that method will recover the most drive space.

Chuck

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From: John Sikes <jsikes at sikesland.com> 
To: blueonyx at blueonyx.it 
Sent: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:13:11 -0600 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:09439]  /var getting full

> Received a message that my /var partition was getting full.  Thought   
> it was going to be the spool again, but found that btmp was huge.   
> Looks like I got hit very hard in the past 24/48 hours with failed   
> login attempts.  Looking for a quick way to purge the file to regain   
> space.  I identified the top 10 offenders and blocked their IP's for   
> now and just need to reclaim space. 
> 
> Can I just cat /dev/null > /var/log/btmp?  Is there a better, more  
> correct way to clear up some space quick? 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> John Sikes 
> 
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