Re: Problem with var directory being full -- Thanks to All!
From: Bright, Frank (FBright_at_UARTS.EDU)
Date: 05/04/05
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Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 13:29:23 -0400 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Thanks to Simon and all who replied. Your advice has been very helpful!
FMB
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
Green, Simon
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:59 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Problem with var directory being full!
Well, that's what I wanted to know: your original post didn't make it
clear that wtmp was the sole cause of the problem.
For your users' print jobs, you have no choice but to allocate more
space somewhere. Personally I wouldn't bother creating a separate
filesystem for that.
/var/adm/wtmp can grow quite rapidly, particularly if you've got a lot
of ftp or similar. (If you get an improperly terminated ftp session -
from a Windows client, perhaps - it can poll and write a new entry every
few seconds. That soon mounts up.) We just delete it once a week: all
of the information it contains which is useful for auditing is available
elsewhere, so it's just not worth the trouble of trying to keep it's
size down, although I used to clear out unwanted entries so that I could
keep it.
-- Simon Green Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l. AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html New to AIX? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/UNIX N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated. Please post all follow-ups to the list. -----Original Message----- From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Bright, Frank Sent: 04 May 2005 16:28 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: Problem with var directory being full! Simon, Our problem is running out of space in the /var filesystem. Several time we have ran out of space when users have many print jobs in the queue and the /var/tmp directory takes the rest when more print jobs are done. Also, the wtmp file grows and takes up alot of space. We want to control the situation and was wondering if any othert users had the same issue and what they did! FMB ___________________________________________________ Frank M. Bright fbright@uarts.edu Administrative Computing University of the Arts (A15) http://www.uarts.edu <http://www.uarts.edu/> 320 S. Broad St. 215-717-6081(w) Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-717-6087(f) Colleague 17.0.14 AIX 5.2.0.2 Unidata 6.03 ________________________________ From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Green, Simon Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:09 AM To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: Problem with var directory being full! The solution depends on the cause of the problem. Do you know what particular file(s) are taking up the space? You can create additional filesystems under /var. Depending on what they are you may have to put them in rootvg, so that they're available immediately at boot. I would want to know exactly what was causing the problem first, though: better to avoid creating extra filesystems and making things more complicated. -- Simon Green Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l. AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html New to AIX? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/UNIX N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated. Please post all follow-ups to the list. -----Original Message----- From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Bright, Frank Sent: 04 May 2005 15:42 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU Subject: Problem with var directory being full! To All: Every now and then our /var/tmp space becomes full and users cannot add any more print jobs. Has anyone else experience this problem and what did they do to resolve it? Can the /var/tmp be redirected or mounted on its on filesystem? Once we removed the wtmp file to save space but we don't want to do that all the time.
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