Why is /var so big?

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Subject: Why is /var so big?
From: Rob Rosenthal <robrosenthal1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:28:02 -0500
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After checking out another thread regarding disk space, I checked my disk usage and found that I had over 1000MB of stuff in /var. Here is the output of "du -sh *" from /var:

[root@pcp09725103pcs var]# du -sh *
4.0K    account
902M    cache
2.0M    clamav
4.0K    db
4.0K    dkms
8.0K    empty
8.0K    gdm
97M     lib
4.0K    local
20K     lock
3.3M    log
0       mail
8.0K    named
4.0K    nis
4.0K    opt
4.0K    preserve
172K    run
936K    spool
8.0K    state
3.3M    tmp
120K    webmin
1.2M    www
12K     yp

Please forgive me, as I am a relative newbie, but what the heck is all this stuff? What can I get rid of?

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