/ space usage

[Mark Haney]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:44, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:30, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > 
> > 

> > Yep.  Still there.  file lists it as data.  Here's the output:
> > 
> > [root at marius clientmqueue]# ls -l
> > total 2099200
> > -rw-rw----  1 markh smmsp 2147483647 Sep 20 17:07 dfi8KL00F0004975
> > [root at marius clientmqueue]# file *
> > dfi8KL00F0004975: data
> 
> That's not 2MB, it's 2GB! It's not surprising that that mail couldn't be 
> delivered.
> 
> How about ps uaxww | grep mail?
> 
> The file is owned by you so it's one of your processes that's generating it. 
> Do you have any cron jobs set up that might generate large volumes of output?
> 
> Paul.
Damn.  I wondered what was going on.  The only cron job I run on this
machine is setiathome.  I ran it on the old install on this machine and
didn't have any problems.  Here's the output of ps:

[markh at marius markh]$ ps uaxww | grep mail
root      2382  0.0  0.5  7656 2796 ?        S    07:41   0:00 sendmail:
accepting connections
smmsp     2391  0.0  0.4  7708 2372 ?        S    07:41   0:00 sendmail:
Queue runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
markh     3778  0.0  0.1  5056  588 pts/0    R    08:48   0:00 grep mail



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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 
08:49:06 up 1:09, 2 users, load average: 1.29, 1.53, 1.41