[BlueOnyx:09821] Re: / partition is getting full

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Michael Stauber wrote:

> But depending on what's installed it could be anything else.

Thanks Michael,
I actually ignored /var, /tmp, /boot and /home since those are all in 
partitions that are separate from /.  So narrowing that, I found:
2.8G    /etc

Since /etc on my other BX boxes sits at just a few MB, I decided to dig 
a little deeper there and found:
2.8G    ./dcc

And from /etc/dcc we got:
2.8G    ./log

In there are hundreds of files dating back as far as Feb 18 such as:
-rw------- 1 root root 2.2K Feb 18 05:43 msg.0N9CWS
-rw------- 1 root root 2.0K Feb 18 05:43 msg.0N9CWU
-rw------- 1 root root  15K Feb 18 05:43 msg.0N9CWW
-rw------- 1 root root 6.9K Feb 18 05:43 msg.0N9CWY
-rw------- 1 root root 2.3K Feb 18 05:43 msg.0N9CX2
-rw------- 1 root root 2.2K Feb 18 05:44 msg.0N9CX4
-rw------- 1 root root  13K Feb 18 05:44 msg.0N9CX6
-rw------- 1 root root 6.9K Feb 18 05:44 msg.0N9CX8
-rw------- 1 root root  28K Feb 18 05:44 msg.0N9CXa
-rw------- 1 root root  13K Feb 18 05:45 msg.0N9CXA
-rw------- 1 root root 1.9K Feb 18 05:44 msg.0N9CXc
-rw------- 1 root root  33K Feb 18 05:45 msg.0N9CXC
-rw------- 1 root root  27K Feb 18 05:44 msg.0N9CXe
-rw------- 1 root root  31K Feb 18 05:45 msg.0N9CXE
-rw------- 1 root root 2.2K Feb 18 05:44 msg.0N9CXg
-rw------- 1 root root 3.5K Feb 18 05:45 msg.0N9CXG
-rw------- 1 root root 7.4K Feb 18 05:44 msg.0N9CXi
-rw------- 1 root root  33K Feb 18 05:45 msg.0N9CXI
-rw------- 1 root root 3.4K Feb 18 05:44 msg.0N9CXk
-rw------- 1 root root  33K Feb 18 05:45 msg.0N9CXK


This customer has AV-SPAM installed and I'm supposing "dcc" enabled and 
it's not flushing out the logs.

Obviously these can be manually flushed, but shouldn't there be some 
sort of automation behind that?  /etc is a relatively small partition on 
a BX box (6GB), and this sort of activity left unchecked will quickly 
fill it up.   And I don't think we want that to happen!  :O

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