Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > The system log, "messages", can fill up to 3 to 5 megabytes in a > session. Yet when I delete it, the space does not show up, at least > not consistently, when I issue a "df". > > Any suggestions? > > Alan Davis > > -- > Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001 145o 42.5'E > Saipan, MP 96950 > Northern Mariana Islands
If you delete the log and syslog is still running then it has an open file descriptor on that file. The blocks won't be released until syslog closes that descriptor or exits. Doing a kill -HUP on the syslog process may do the trick. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
