[ale] weird behavior

[esoteric at atlnet.com (Linux Idiot)]

Mir Shafiqul Islam wrote:
> 
> 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.

Sounds like a temp file that is removed after rebooting.  Look in the
typical tmp areas, /tmp, /var/tmp 

> 
> 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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> > The Gates of hell shall NOT prevail...
> >
> 
> --
> Mir S Islam
> Systems Administrator
> Office of International Services and Programs
> Georgia State University
> mir at oisp.gsu.edu

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