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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:
>
> Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches,
> and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1)
> that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories.
>
> Let's also assume that when you type:
> [root@db2 mail]# rm *
> you get:
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
>
> any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :)
Use find to delete the files one at a time. This will take a while, but it'll
get the job done. Here is a sample find command that might do the trick for
/var/log/mail:
find /var/log/mail -ctime +3 -exec rm {} \;
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