[ale] weird behavior

[mir at oisp.gsu.edu (Mir Shafiqul Islam)]

I thought about the log files, but all log files are fine and the main log
file is apache log files, those are on separate file system and not on the
root system.

Plus, how would you explain that all the space coming back after rebooting
? If it was log files, it would still occupy the space. Wouldn't it ?

Thanks.

Mir
 > 
> You must have some process that is dumping hugh amount of data to a log
> file. Try using find with the -size option to get a listing of the very
> large files on your system.  That will narrow down the search quite a
> bit.
> Here's the command on my RedHat 4.2 system:
> 
> [root at Gateway /] # find / -size +2000000c
> 
> This will give a list of all files that are over 2 megs and over.  The
> "c" means bytes.  Also, I have seen something like this on SCO systems. 
> The culprit was mail bouncing messages in a loop and generating tons of
> errors to a mail log.  I think Linux is probably smarter than that
> though :^)
> 
> Later...
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Mir S Islam
Systems Administrator
Office of International Services and Programs
Georgia State University  
mir at oisp.gsu.edu