Why is /var so big?

[Jephthah]

Saturday, March 19, 2005 9:11 PM I (Jephthah) wrote:
> So just do a  "rm -rf /var/cache" to wipe it out.


Err..  Crap, im an idiot don't listen to me.  Thats not your webpage
cache.  I don't know what it is at the moment, but don't delete it based
on what I told you.


> On Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:28 PM, Rob Rosenthal wrote:
> 
> > After checking out another thread regarding disk space, I checked my
> > disk usage and found that I had over 1000MB of stuff in /var. 
> >  Here is 
> > the output of "du -sh *" from /var:
> > 
> > [root at pcp09725103pcs var]# du -sh *
> > 4.0K    account
> > 902M    cache
> > 
> > Please forgive me, as I am a relative newbie, but what the
> > heck is all 
> > this stuff?  What can I get rid of?