du /var | sort -rn | more This will sort the output with the largest directories at the top. Then you can examine what is in the directories that is taking up the space.
David http://freebsd.vangeyn.net/ > I Found out the Problem, > The /var partation is full. > How do i find out where is taking up all the space? > > > Thanks > >>From: Ean Kingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: DHCP Server Offline. >>Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:18:09 -0400 >> >>On July 15, 2005 10:11 am, Stephan Weaver wrote: >> > Hello folks, >> > >> > I have a Stand Alone FreeBSD Firewall / Nat / Dhcp Server. >> > Everything seems to work fine, up until this morning. >> > Users seem to complain they could not get on the network anymore. >> > >> > Further investigation revealed the dhcp server could not be contacted. >> > Further more, only some of the users were online. >> > I am guessing that these clients who were online had an ip address >> from >>the >> > dhcp server at a previous time and the lease didnt expire as yet. >> > And users who were not online, the lease expired and attempted to >>contact >> > the dhcp server and failed. >> > >> > I Would appreciate any help or suggestions. >> >>Set the lease expire time to at least 5 days (7 to 10 is better) and the >>renewal time to between 4 and 12 hours. >> >>Then setup a dhcp monitoring process that will alert you if it fails to >> get >>an >>address or renewal. >> >>Make sure you have more addresses available than you ever expect to give >>out. >>I go with 50% more. I've known some admins that want at least double. >> >> > Like what to do in the future incase this happens again. >> >>Setup 2 dhcp servers on the network. If one fails, the other will >> hopefully >>continue to serve addresses. Monitor this one as well. >> >> > I Would like to find out what had happened. >> >>Start reading logs. >> >> > The last thing that i had done to the server was setup, configure and >> > install 'ntop'; >> > dont know if this would cause a problem. >> > >> > Thank you in advance. >> > Stephan Weaver >> > >> > P.S. Please reply to my Directly at @ >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>-- >>Ean Kingston >> >>E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org >>URL: http://www.hedron.org/ >>I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network >>administration please feel free to contact me directly. > > _________________________________________________________________ > FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! > http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
