<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi Felix.<br><div><div>On 17 Aug 2014, at 7:27 am, Felix Kaegi <<a href="mailto:f.kaegi@fairtalk.com">f.kaegi@fairtalk.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="DE-CH" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Just noted the huge size of mtalog.myd and mtalog.myi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>in var/lib/mysql/mailscanner<br><br>Can these files be deleted?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Dont delete... but you can truncate the table in mysql to remove all existing records in the table.<div><br></div><div>GK</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="DE-CH" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Best regards<br>Felix<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it">blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a> [<a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it">mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of</b>Gustavo Silva<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dienstag, 12. August 2014 22:01<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>BlueOnyx General Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[BlueOnyx:15776] Re: /var partition frequently filling up<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hey !<br>Glad I could help.<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Since you activated compression just now, it will run on the next weekly (maybe) logrotate run.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Usually /etc/logtorate.d/syslog takes care of that.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Are you missing that configuration file?<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">/var/log/messages (syslog) requires specific configuration and its usually part of the linux distro.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cheers!<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gustavo<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">2014-08-12 20:23 GMT+01:00 Felix Kaegi <<a href="mailto:f.kaegi@fairtalk.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">f.kaegi@fairtalk.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0cm;"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi Gustavo<br><br>Thanks for the tips. I changed the rotate length and activated the compression.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Would you know where I find the individual settings for the log files ‘messages’ and ‘btmp’?<br><br>Best wishes<br>Felix<br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:<a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of</b>Gustavo Silva<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dienstag, 12. August 2014 19:09</span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>BlueOnyx General Mailing List<o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[BlueOnyx:15774] Re: /var partition frequently filling up<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Usually in my case, logs end up filling up the /var partition after a year or so. Check out the /etc/logrotate.conf and individual /etc/logrotate.d/ settings and also make sure compress is enabled. That should lower the usage. Hope this helps.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Gustavo</span><o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">2014-08-12 17:37 GMT+01:00 Felix Kaegi <<a href="mailto:f.kaegi@fairtalk.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">f.kaegi@fairtalk.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt; margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 4.8pt;"><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi Steve<br><br>Thanks for the hint.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The main result is:<br>1419152 /var/lib<br>1299684 /var/log</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">In /var/log it is mainly the messages and btmp files that occupy hundreds of megabytes.<br><br>Any further help would be appreciated.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:<a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Steven Howes<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dienstag, 12. August 2014 17:34<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>BlueOnyx General Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[BlueOnyx:15770] Re: /var partition frequently filling up</span><o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">On 12 Aug 2014, at 16:21, Felix Kaegi <<a href="mailto:f.kaegi@fairtalk.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">f.kaegi@fairtalk.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The /var partition on our SL/BlueOnyx server is frequently filling up. The partition has 4GB of disk space and BO reports a 96% disk usage and refuses to do YUM updates and even terminates the mail server. <br><br>How best to resolve this on a permanent basis?</span><o:p></o:p></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Find out what’s causing it. Look around and see where the space has gone.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Run:<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">du --max-depth=1 /var</span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">And see where it’s all used. You can remove the /var of the end and CD into directories to see where it’s gone, working down through layers until you find it.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Steve<o:p></o:p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Blueonyx mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it</a><br><a href="http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Blueonyx mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it</a><br><a href="http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Blueonyx mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it">Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it</a><br>http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>