/ space usage [SOLVED!]

[Mark Haney]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:55, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:44, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>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
> 
> OK, so there's nothing appearing to be trying to send mail at the moment.
> 
> Try running the cron job command straight from the command line and see if it 
> produces any output. Anything you see sent to the terminal would normally get 
> mailed to you by cron.
> 
> If you don't want the output, discard it by adding
> 
>  >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> to the end of the cron job's command line.
> 
> Paul.

That's what it was.  Normally I edit cron jobs manually, but with this
particular install I installed KDE as well as GNOME and it looks like
KDE installed a Task Scheduler program in the System Tools section.  In
my laziness I setup setiathome that way and forgot to dump the output to
/dev/null.  It didn't occur to me until you mentioned the cron job and I
looked at it via crontab -e instead of through the task scheduler. 
That'll teach me to get lazy. Thanks for all the help.



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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 
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