Problem after running portupgrade

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Chris,

Tks for your advice.
 
> Look into /var/log for a list of files like this
> example:
> 
> cron.0.bz2              maillog.1.bz2          
> sendmail.st.0
> cron.1.bz2              maillog.2.bz2          
> sendmail.st.1
> 
> Note the bz2 extensions and the files that have
> digits  at the end.
> Chances are you may have many. You can delete these
> if you wish.

ls /var/log/
XFree86.0-1.log         messages.0.bz2
XFree86.0-2.log         messages.1.bz2
XFree86.0-2.log~        messages.2.bz2
XFree86.0-3.log         messages.3.bz2
XFree86.0.log           messages.4.bz2
XFree86.0.log.old       messages.5.bz2
XFree86.0.log~          mount.today
XFree86.8-1.log         ppp.log
XFree86.8.log           ppp.log.0.bz2
XFree86.8.log.old       ppp.log.1.bz2
XFree86.8.log~          ppp.log.2.bz2
auth.log                ppp.log.3.bz2
auth.log.0.bz2          ppp.log~
cron                    ppp.yd_040225
cron.0.bz2              scrollkeeper.log
cron.1.bz2              security
cron.2.bz2              sendmail.st
cron.3.bz2              sendmail.st.0
cups                    sendmail.st.1
debug.log               sendmail.st.10
dmesg.today             sendmail.st.2
dmesg.yesterday         sendmail.st.3
kdm.log                 sendmail.st.4
lastlog                 sendmail.st.5
lpd-errs                sendmail.st.6
maillog                 sendmail.st.7
maillog.0.bz2           sendmail.st.8
maillog.1.bz2           sendmail.st.9
maillog.2.bz2           setuid.today
maillog.3.bz2           setuid.yesterday
maillog.4.bz2           slip.log
maillog.5.bz2           userlog
maillog.6.bz2           wtmp
maillog.7.bz2           xdm.log
messages                xferlog

I am going to delete following files;

/var/log/
messages.0.bz2
messages.1.bz2
messages.2.bz2
messages.3.bz2
messages.4.bz2
messages.5.bz2
ppp.log.0.bz2
ppp.log.1.bz2
ppp.log.2.bz2
ppp.log.3.bz2
auth.log.0.bz2
cron.0.bz2
cron.1.bz2
cron.2.bz2
cron.3.bz2
sendmail.st.1
sendmail.st.10
sendmail.st.2
sendmail.st.3
sendmail.st.4
sendmail.st.5
sendmail.st.6
sendmail.st.7
sendmail.st.8
sendmail.st.9
maillog.0.bz2
maillog.1.bz2
maillog.2.bz2
maillog.3.bz2
maillog.4.bz2
maillog.5.bz2
maillog.6.bz2
maillog.7.bz2

Any comment ???

> Also, look around the dirs within /var  You may have
> something logging such as 
> a core dump.

$ ls /var
account         db              log             rwho
at              empty           mail            spool
backups         games           msgs            tmp
crash           heimdal         preserve        yp
cron            lib             run

$ ls /var/backups
aliases.bak             master.passwd.bak
group.bak               master.passwd.bak2
group.bak2

Can I delete all above files ???

$ ls /var/tmp
gconfd-root             svh3k.tmp
gconfd-satimis          svh3m.tmp
linux_base-7.1_5.tbz    svmhc.tmp
mapping-root            svmhe.tmp
mapping-satimis         svmhg.tmp
orbit-root              teTeX-2.0.2_2.tbz
orbit-satimis           tmp.0.QQlif7
pkgdb.fixme             tmp.0.dr0vBP
sv603.tmp               tmp.0.kDy79T
sv605.tmp               tmp.0.lu8h4X
sv607.tmp               tmp.1.Egne6s
svd5k.tmp               tmp.1.JW15qD
svd5m.tmp               tmp.1.nNXAdw
svd5o.tmp               tmp.1.xygGQv
svh3i.tmp               vi.recover

Can I delete above files with .tmp extension and all
tmp files ???

# ls /var/cron
tabs

# ls /var/run
cron.pid
.....

core dump
could not be found

B.R.
Stephen

_______________________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk