Need help, server running out of space!!

Eduardo Casarero ecasarero at gmail.com
Fri Feb 2 22:01:52 CET 2007


thanks!!!! i've found the problem. other admin turned on the mailwatch debug
and he forgot to turn it off, so the log eat all disk space.

Thanks to everybody for your help!

2007/2/1, mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>:
>
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:46:16AM +1030, Peter Nitschke wrote:
> > Have you checked your logs?
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> >
> > On 1/02/2007 at 4:38 PM Eduardo Casarero wrote:
> >
> > >2007/2/1, Claude Gagné <claude.gagne at multitech.qc.ca>:
> > >>
> > >>  Empty the quarantine ?
> > >>
> > >
> > >i've already done that and now i have some air, but something is eating
> > >space very quick and its not the quarantine.
> > >
> > >
> > >Eduardo Casarero a écrit :
> > >>
> > >> hi MS gurus i need your help. I run Mscanner with spamassasing on a
> > >> HPDL380, with 1 scsi disk.
> > >>
> > >> mscanner MailScanner-4.55.10, sendmail
>
> I have seen some circumstances in which a large file, while consuming
> disk space, didn't show up in `ls -l` or in `du` while the process was
> running that was writing to the file. You may have to stop MailScanner
> and other tools to have a chance of seeing where the big file is. In
> the worst case, you'll have to boot to single-user mode, mount the
> disks in your fstab, and then examine them.
>
> Good luck!
>
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