/var is lack of space!!

[Robert Huff]

John writes:

>  This is a good way to find out "where" the storage is being used:
>  cd /var ; du -s * | sort -nr | more
>  That will give you a list, sorted from most storage to least, of
>  each directory (or file) at the /var level.  You can then choose
>  to descend into one of those, and run the command again, to drill
>  deeper.

	Technical notes:
	1) given you're already at /var, the "*" is superfluous.
	2) if you omit the -s, you get the "drilling down" for free:

47100   ./db
40126   ./db/pkg
13160   ./log
10738   ./log/samba
5554    ./mail
3688    ./spool
3656    ./spool/clientmqueue
2072    ./db/scrollkeeper
1648    ./db/clamav
1096    ./db/pkg/teTeX-texmf-2.0.2_3
796     ./db/pkg/linux_base-8-8.0_6

	at the cost of a much longer list.
	I have it set up so this runs as a cron job and is waiting in
the morning e-mail.


				Robert Huff