By the the /Var I am assuming you mean the /var directory tree.
/var/log is where syslogd writes important logfiles. You can remove older files from there if you have a problem.
/var/tmp can also be cleaned up.
This sample cleans up only if the 2GB limit has been reached. Use GB in your limit if you want to use this code.
It removes old syslog files and cleans up /var/tmp (I guessed where /var/tmp might be, some systems do not even have one, and the directory can be /var/admin/tmp or some such).
Be careful with this script you could do damage to the system by wholesale removal of any old big file in /var. Also consider increasing the size of the /var/ filesystem, there usually is one.
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The above method provides a perfect method of removing files under /var. You can always use the method that Jim has told, but you need to extra careful while giving those commands as Jim has mentioned...
Just to be sure, in place of "-exec rm {} " give "-exec ls -l {}" to see what are the files that you are about to remove.
And if you need assistance in tracking what type of files to be removed/nullified, then this link I think might be somewhat useful for you.
I have been searching and reading about syslog. I would like to know how to Transfer the logs being thrown into /var/log/messages into another file example /var/log/volumelog.
tail -f /var/log/messages
dblogger: msg_to_dbrow: no logtype using missing
dblogger: msg_to_dbrow_str: val ==... (2 Replies)
i try to find way to make string concatenation in csh ( sorry this is what i have )
so i found out i can't do :
set string_buff = ""
foreach line("`cat $source_dir/$f`")
$string_buff = string_buff $line
end
how can i do string concatenation? (1 Reply)
Hi
I want to know what is the difference between $var and ${var}. :D
I saw in few of the scripts examples.Somewhere people use $var and somewhere ${var}.
Is there any difference between two ? :confused:
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hello, I recently found that my /var/sadm/install/contents, ~/admin/default, /var/spool/patch and /var/spool/pkg files were empty.
This broke the pkginfo, pkgchk and other package related tools.
The pkgmap no longer points to where the applications have been installed.
I have replaced the... (0 Replies)
The /var/adm/messages in Solaris seem to log more system messages/errors compared to /var/log/messages in Linux.
I checked the log level in Linux and they seem OK.
Is there any other log file that contains the messages or is it just that Linux doesn't log great many things? (2 Replies)
hi sirs
can u tell the difference between /var/log/syslogs and /var/adm/messages
in my working place i am having two servers.
in one servers messages file is empty and syslog file is going on increasing..
and in another servers message file is going on increasing but syslog file is... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm trying to assign values to multiple variables, is there a way i can just change the number of the variable? ie
read$num=YES
write$num=NO
ex$num=YES
where the $num can be changed ie. in this instance i have 3 read variables, 3 write variables and 3 ex variables and i'd prefer... (1 Reply)
hi there,
i read man sh(1) and tried to understand the difference between $var and ${var}, but i'm still unsure. when do we use one and when do we use the other? i need an example :rolleyes:
thx (1 Reply)