On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 21:11 -0800, Jephthah wrote: > Without looking into it too deeply, I would guess your /var/cache is > previously viewed webpages. And it's the only thing that is really > causing you grief in /var... The rest consumes a trival amount. > > So just do a "rm -rf /var/cache" to wipe it out. > > You can make this command an alias and/or add it to your startup script > or even a regularly occuring cron action if you like. ---- # ls -l /var/cache/samba total 172 -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Aug 1 2004 account_policy.tdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 696 Jan 1 12:42 brlock.tdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225 Mar 19 22:04 browse.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Jan 26 01:27 connections.tdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Sep 9 2004 gencache.tdb -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Aug 1 2004 group_mapping.tdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jan 26 01:37 locking.tdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 696 Nov 11 16:30 login_cache.tdb -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Jan 1 17:45 messages.tdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7848 Mar 13 04:02 namelist.debug -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Jul 31 2004 ntdrivers.tdb -rw------- 1 root root 696 Jul 31 2004 ntforms.tdb -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Jul 31 2004 ntprinters.tdb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 31 2004 printing -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Aug 1 2004 registry.tdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jan 1 17:44 sessionid.tdb -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Jul 27 2004 share_info.tdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Jan 26 20:48 unexpected.tdb drwxr-x--- 2 root squid 4096 Dec 20 15:50 winbindd_privileged -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 544 Mar 19 22:09 wins.dat I'd say on the whole that giving advice to some to rm -fr /var/cache without considering all of the potential implications of doing that would be really rotten advice without considering what it will do to yum/apt etc. (break them) /var - if set to it's own partition should have at least 2 Gigabytes - more if it's a mail server or a web server. You can configure yum to remove all of the rpm's it downloads after it installs them...see Alexander's reply Craig Craig
