DHCP Server Offline.

[David van Geyn]

du /var | sort -rn | more

This will sort the output with the largest directories at the top. Then
you can examine what is in the directories that is taking up the space.

David
http://freebsd.vangeyn.net/

> I Found out the Problem,
> The /var partation is full.
> How do i find out where is taking up all the space?
>
>
> Thanks
>
>>From: Ean Kingston <ean at hedron.org>
>>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>CC: stephanweaver at hotmail.com
>>Subject: Re: DHCP Server Offline.
>>Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:18:09 -0400
>>
>>On July 15, 2005 10:11 am, Stephan Weaver wrote:
>> > Hello folks,
>> >
>> > I have a Stand Alone FreeBSD Firewall / Nat / Dhcp Server.
>> > Everything seems to work fine, up until this morning.
>> > Users seem to complain they could not get on the network anymore.
>> >
>> > Further investigation revealed the dhcp server could not be contacted.
>> > Further more, only some of the users were online.
>> > I am guessing that these clients who were online had an ip address
>> from
>>the
>> > dhcp server at a previous time and the lease didnt expire as yet.
>> > And users who were not online, the lease expired and attempted to
>>contact
>> > the dhcp server and failed.
>> >
>> > I Would appreciate any help or suggestions.
>>
>>Set the lease expire time to at least 5 days (7 to 10 is better) and the
>>renewal time to between 4 and 12 hours.
>>
>>Then setup a dhcp monitoring process that will alert you if it fails to
>> get
>>an
>>address or renewal.
>>
>>Make sure you have more addresses available than you ever expect to give
>>out.
>>I go with 50% more. I've known some admins that want at least double.
>>
>> > Like what to do in the future incase this happens again.
>>
>>Setup 2 dhcp servers on the network. If one fails, the other will
>> hopefully
>>continue to serve addresses. Monitor this one as well.
>>
>> > I Would like to find out what had happened.
>>
>>Start reading logs.
>>
>> > The last thing that i had done to the server was setup, configure and
>> > install 'ntop';
>> > dont know if this would cause a problem.
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance.
>> > Stephan Weaver
>> >
>> > P.S. Please reply to my Directly at @
>> > stephanweaver at hotmail.com
>>
>>--
>>Ean Kingston
>>
>>E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org
>>URL: http://www.hedron.org/
>>I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network
>>administration please feel free to contact me directly.
>
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