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Operating Systems Solaris Root partition filling up Post 302538574 by goose25 on Wednesday 13th of July 2011 11:35:55 AM
Old 07-13-2011
Beta17, thanks for the info. I know how to make the changes, my question is will making the change to /var/audit have any adverse affects upon the system. I don't think that it will, but, just in case, I will try it out on my workstation first and see how it works out.
 

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