ppp filling /var
Vizion
vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com
Thu Jun 2 11:57:06 GMT 2005
On Thursday 02 June 2005 04:47, the author James contributed to the dialogue
on-
ppp filling /var:
>After ppp runs for a few days:
>
># df
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/ad0s1a 126M 49M 67M 42% /
>/dev/ad0s1f 252M 18K 232M 0% /tmp
>/dev/ad0s1g 8.1G 1.1G 6.4G 15% /usr
>/dev/ad0s1e 252M 252M -20.0M 109% /var <----!!!
>procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
>
># du -h /var
>... snip ...
>12M /var
>
>After killing ppp:
>
># df
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/ad0s1a 126M 49M 67M 42% /
>/dev/ad0s1f 252M 18K 232M 0% /tmp
>/dev/ad0s1g 8.1G 1.1G 6.4G 15% /usr
>/dev/ad0s1e 252M 12M 219M 6% /var <----
>procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
>
># du -h /var
>... snip ...
>12M /var
>
>Anyone know how to fix this? Google was no help.
>
>note: this is not a problem with /var/log/* filling up, as du will show, or
>any file written to disk... its *something* else
>
>Full output of du -h
># du -h /var
>2.0K /var/account
>2.0K /var/at/jobs
>2.0K /var/at/spool
>6.0K /var/at
>10.0K /var/backups
>4.0K /var/crash
>2.0K /var/cron/tabs
>4.0K /var/cron
>2.0K /var/db/ipf
> ... snip ... (/var/db/pkg/*)
>2.2M /var/db/pkg
>4.0K /var/db/ports/gettext
>6.0K /var/db/ports
> 28K /var/db/portaudit
>474K /var/db/tripwire/report
>6.5M /var/db/tripwire
>9.8M /var/db
>2.0K /var/empty
>2.0K /var/heimdal
>1.7M /var/log
>8.0K /var/mail
>4.0K /var/msgs
>2.0K /var/preserve
>2.0K /var/run/ppp
> 94K /var/run
>2.0K /var/rwho
>2.0K /var/spool/lock
>2.0K /var/spool/lpd
>2.0K /var/spool/mqueue
>2.0K /var/spool/opielocks
>2.0K /var/spool/output/lpd
>4.0K /var/spool/output
>2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Preserve
>2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Sequence
>2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Status
>2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Temp
>2.0K /var/spool/uucp/.Xqtdir
> 12K /var/spool/uucp
>2.0K /var/spool/uucppublic
>4.0K /var/spool/clientmqueue
> 32K /var/spool
>2.0K /var/tmp/vi.recover
>112K /var/tmp/etc/defaults
>2.0K /var/tmp/etc/X11
>4.0K /var/tmp/etc/gnats
> 52K /var/tmp/etc/isdn
>2.0K /var/tmp/etc/kerberosIV
>294K /var/tmp/etc/mail
> 56K /var/tmp/etc/mtree
> 16K /var/tmp/etc/namedb
> 50K /var/tmp/etc/periodic/daily
>6.0K /var/tmp/etc/periodic/monthly
> 42K /var/tmp/etc/periodic/security
> 18K /var/tmp/etc/periodic/weekly
>118K /var/tmp/etc/periodic
>4.0K /var/tmp/etc/ppp
>2.0K /var/tmp/etc/skel
>108K /var/tmp/etc/ssh
>10.0K /var/tmp/etc/ssl
> 22K /var/tmp/etc/uucp
>1.3M /var/tmp/etc
>1.3M /var/tmp
> 22K /var/yp
>2.0K /var/games/hackdir/save
>4.0K /var/games/hackdir
>2.0K /var/games/larn
>2.0K /var/games/phantasia
>10.0K /var/games
> 13M /var
I presume you are running ppp as a masquerading engine on an internal lan.
Is this a new phenomenon or has it been with you ever since you started ppp?
The fact that you have such a comparatively large /var suggests that the
machine may have been set up with this purpose in mind and that you simply
need a larger /var. If the problem is new/intermittent then you might want to
monitor look your network traffic carefully to identify the source.
David
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