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Operating Systems Solaris /var size is increasing day by day Post 302143743 by thepurple on Saturday 3rd of November 2007 04:07:32 AM

11-03-2007

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/var size is increasing day by day

Hi experts,

I am facing a big problem. i use solaris 9. i found size of /var is increasing day by.
snapshot of a yester moring-
/dev/vx/dsk/var 15G 14G 1.1G 94% /var
snapshot of a yesterday everning-
/dev/vx/dsk/var 15G 14G 824M 95% /var

I am expecting /var/adm/messages size is increasing and hence /var size is increasing. Its my assume. But I don't know how to delete lot of records from the file /var/adm/messages

Please guys advise me asap. I am danger situation and i am afraid.

Morning Snapshot- /var/adm

bash-2.05$ ls -lht
total 1250600
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 27K Nov 2 09:55 lastlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109M Nov 2 09:55 messages-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 15K Nov 2 09:31 utmpx
-rw------- 1 root root 42K Nov 1 13:05 sulog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179M Oct 29 03:10 messages.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123M Oct 22 03:10 messages.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87M Oct 15 03:10 messages.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112M Oct 8 03:10 messages.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 10 2005 vold.log
drwxrwxr-x 5 adm adm 512 May 10 2005 acct
drwxrwxr-x 2 adm sys 512 May 10 2005 sa
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 May 10 2005 sm.bin
-rw------- 1 uucp bin 0 May 10 2005 aculog
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root bin 0 May 10 2005 spellhist
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 May 10 2005 exacct
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 May 10 2005 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 May 10 2005 passwd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 May 10 2005 streams
bash-2.05$

Evening snapshot- /var/adm

bash-2.05$ ls -ltrh
total 1269464
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 May 10 2005 streams
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 May 10 2005 passwd
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 May 10 2005 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 May 10 2005 exacct
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root bin 0 May 10 2005 spellhist
-rw------- 1 uucp bin 0 May 10 2005 aculog
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 May 10 2005 sm.bin
drwxrwxr-x 2 adm sys 512 May 10 2005 sa
drwxrwxr-x 5 adm adm 512 May 10 2005 acct
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 10 2005 vold.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112M Oct 8 03:10 messages.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87M Oct 15 03:10 messages.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123M Oct 22 03:10 messages.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179M Oct 29 03:10 messages.0
-rw------- 1 root root 42K Nov 2 09:59 sulog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 15K Nov 2 18:24 utmpx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118M Nov 2 18:29 messages-r--r--r-- 1 root root 27K Nov 2 18:29 lastlog
bash-2.05$

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Purple

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

wtmpx

utmpx(4)							   File Formats 							  utmpx(4)

NAME

       utmpx, wtmpx - utmpx and wtmpx database entry formats

SYNOPSIS

       #include <utmpx.h>
       /var/adm/utmpx
       /var/adm/wtmpx

DESCRIPTION

       The utmpx and wtmpx files are extended database files that have superseded the obsolete utmp and wtmp database files.

       The  utmpx database contains user access and accounting information for commands such as who(1), write(1), and login(1). The wtmpx database
       contains the history of user access and accounting information for the  utmpx database.

USAGE

       Applications should not access these databases directly, but should use the functions described on the getutxent(3C) manual page to  inter-
       act with the utmpx and wtmpx databases to ensure that they are maintained consistently.

FILES

       /var/adm/utmpx	 user access and adminstration information

       /var/adm/wtmpx	 history of user access and adminstrative information

SEE ALSO

       getutxent(3C), wait(3C), wait.h(3HEAD)

SunOS 5.11							    6 Mar 2008								  utmpx(4)