Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 21:30:53 -0600, Phillip Salzman wrote:
> > They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've noticed a
> > lot of disk space disappearing. Shortly after that, a simple du into our
> > /var/spool returned a not so nice error:
> > > > du: fts_read: Cannot allocate memory
> > > > No matter what command I run on that directory, I just don't seem to have
> > enough available resources to show the files let alone delete them (echo *,
> > ls, find, rm -rf, etc.)
> > I suspect you will need to write something that uses dirent(3) to scan
> the offending directory and delete (or whatever) the files one by one.
> > Skeleton code (in perl) would look like:
> [...]
I would suggest trying this simple hack:
cd /var/spool/directory ; cat . | strings | xargs rm -f
It's a dirty hack, but might work, if the file names in that directory aren't too strange (no spaces etc.).
why suggest a dirty hack that might not work, when the proposed Perl script would have worked perfectly?
David
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