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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks, Greg, it worked perfectly!<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Greg Kuhnert<br><b>Sent:</b> Sonntag, 17. August 2014 04:07<br><b>To:</b> BlueOnyx General Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [BlueOnyx:15789] Re: /var partition frequently filling up<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Felix.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 17 Aug 2014, at 7:27 am, Felix Kaegi <<a href="mailto:f.kaegi@fairtalk.com">f.kaegi@fairtalk.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dont delete... but you can truncate the table in mysql to remove all existing records in the table.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>GK<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best regards<br>Felix<br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><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</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hey !<br>Glad I could help.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Since you activated compression just now, it will run on the next weekly (maybe) logrotate run.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Usually /etc/logtorate.d/syslog takes care of that.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Are you missing that configuration file?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>/var/log/messages (syslog) requires specific configuration and its usually part of the linux distro.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Gustavo<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2014-08-12 20:23 GMT+01:00 Felix Kaegi <<a href="mailto:f.kaegi@fairtalk.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>f.kaegi@fairtalk.com</span></a>>:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[mailto:<a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</span></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></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>BlueOnyx General Mailing List<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[BlueOnyx:15774] Re: /var partition frequently filling up<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gustavo</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2014-08-12 17:37 GMT+01:00 Felix Kaegi <<a href="mailto:f.kaegi@fairtalk.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>f.kaegi@fairtalk.com</span></a>>:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[mailto:<a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</span></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></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 12 Aug 2014, at 16:21, Felix Kaegi <<a href="mailto:f.kaegi@fairtalk.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>f.kaegi@fairtalk.com</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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></p></div></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Find out what’s causing it. Look around and see where the space has gone.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Run:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt'>du --max-depth=1 /var</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Steve<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Blueonyx mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it</span></a><br><a href="http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Blueonyx mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it"><span style='color:purple'>Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it</span></a><br><a href="http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>Blueonyx mailing list<br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it"><span lang=EN-US>Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx"><span lang=EN-US>http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>