[mdlug] WTF /var/log

[Wojtak, Greg]

On 2011-07-08 6:23 AM, "Robert Jim Fulner" <fulner at gmail.com> wrote:

>Wow,
>
>Lots of inoformation, almost none of which I understand!
>
> >
> >--  *MANY* things depend upon the /var directory to do their work.  If
> >/var
> >fills up - things tend to stop working.    Show us the output of "df
>>-h"
> >and we can narrow down what action you need to take.
>
>jim at debian:/var/log$ df -h
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda1              37G   35G     0 100% /
>tmpfs                 236M     0  236M   0% /lib/init/rw
>udev                  232M  208K  231M   1% /dev
>tmpfs                 236M   88K  236M   1% /dev/shm
>overflow              1.0M   16K 1008K   2% /tmp
>
> >Go to /var/log and do an 'du -ks * | sort -n' to see what is taking up
> >the space.  You probably have some service installed that didn't define
> >a log rotation rule [or your log rotation just isn't working].
>
>Jim F. Output sudo du -ks /var/log/* | sort -n
>
>http://pastebin.com/Be09vR3V
>

Based on the output there, it looks like something is desperately trying
to send mail from or to your system.  You can certainly remove any log
with a .<number> extension, but take a look at them first to try and
determine what's using the mailer on your system.