Subject: Re: How to delete log files
To: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.org>
From: David Albert <david_albert@comcast.net>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 03/03/2007 00:26:42
> This last almost sounds like you've got some funny flags set on
> the file and/or directory (clutching at straws here!). What
> does "ls -loa /var/log" show? "mount -vv" and "df" output may be
> helpful too...
>
> One more option might be to boot to single user mode and
> "fsck -f /dev/..." for the partition where your /var lives to
> make sure there's nothing wrong with the filesystem.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon.
>
I think you've hit on it....the sappnd flag is set for both the directory
and the files in question. So now how do I turn off this flag?
raq2: {60} ls -loa /var/log
total 182448
drwxr-x--- 3 root wheel sappnd 1536 Mar 2 22:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel - 512 Oct 1 2005 ..
-rw-r----- 1 uucp dialer sappnd 60 Aug 7 2005 aculog
-rw-r----- 1 uucp dialer sappnd 98 Aug 7 2005 aculog.0.gz
-rw-r----- 1 uucp dialer sappnd 103 Aug 6 2005 aculog.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 uucp dialer sappnd 101 Aug 5 2005 aculog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 uucp dialer sappnd 97 Aug 4 2005 aculog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 uucp dialer sappnd 101 Aug 3 2005 aculog.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 uucp dialer sappnd 99 Aug 2 2005 aculog.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 uucp dialer sappnd 99 Aug 1 2005 aculog.6.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 22882637 Mar 3 04:41 authlog
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 11939 Aug 7 2005
authlog.0.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 12556 Jul 31 2005
authlog.1.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 7391 Jul 26 2005
authlog.2.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 6779 Jul 26 2005
authlog.3.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 7856 Jul 26 2005
authlog.4.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 9126049 Mar 3 05:10 cron
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 8398 Aug 5 2005 cron.0.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 8206 Aug 2 2005 cron.1.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 8422 Jul 29 2005 cron.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 711 Aug 7 2005 daily.out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 28168 Aug 7 2005 lastlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 65536 Aug 7 2005 lastlogx
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel sappnd 0 Jul 3 2005 lpd-errs
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 36219618 Mar 3 05:16 maillog
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 2869 Aug 7 2005
maillog.0.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 3954 Aug 6 2005
maillog.1.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 4699 Aug 5 2005
maillog.2.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 4394 Aug 4 2005
maillog.3.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 4041 Aug 3 2005
maillog.4.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 1577 Aug 2 2005
maillog.5.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 3231 Aug 1 2005
maillog.6.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 23940376 Mar 3 04:16 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 13112 Jul 26 2005
messages.0.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 13199 Jul 26 2005
messages.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 14434 Jul 25 2005
messages.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 19128 Jul 25 2005
messages.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 14580 Jul 25 2005
messages.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 15008 Jul 24 2005
messages.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 13752 Jul 24 2005
messages.6.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 13470 Jul 23 2005
messages.7.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 13716 Jul 23 2005
messages.8.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 14139 Jul 22 2005
messages.9.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel sappnd 512 Jul 3 2005 rdist
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 0 Jul 3 2005 secure
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 0 Jul 3 2005 sendmail.st
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel sappnd 100 Aug 6 2005 weekly.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 36684 Mar 3 04:36 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 194 Aug 5 2005 wtmp.0.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 244 Jul 30 2005 wtmp.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 618 Jul 27 2005 wtmp.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 502 Jul 20 2005 wtmp.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 65 Jul 13 2005 wtmp.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 516 Jul 11 2005 wtmp.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 43 Jul 4 2005 wtmp.6.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 521728 Mar 3 04:36 wtmpx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 536 Aug 5 2005 wtmpx.0.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 733 Jul 30 2005 wtmpx.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 1708 Jul 27 2005 wtmpx.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 1238 Jul 20 2005 wtmpx.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 106 Jul 13 2005 wtmpx.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 1511 Jul 11 2005 wtmpx.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp sappnd 57 Jul 4 2005 wtmpx.6.gz
-rw------- 1 root wheel sappnd 133975 Dec 4 00:01 xferlog
raq2: {62} cd ..
raq2: {63} ls -loa
total 96
drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel - 512 Oct 1 2005 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel - 512 Aug 14 2005 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 3 2005 account
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel - 512 Jul 4 2005 at
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 512 Jul 6 2005 backups
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel - 512 Jul 3 2005 chroot
drwxrwx--- 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 4 2005 crash
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel - 512 Jul 3 2005 cron
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel - 512 Jul 6 2005 db
drwxrwxr-x 6 games games - 512 Jul 4 2005 games
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 3 2005 heimdal
drwxr-x--- 3 root wheel sappnd 1536 Mar 2 22:47 log
drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel - 512 Mar 3 05:17 mail
drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel - 512 Jul 4 2005 msgs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 3 2005 preserve
drwxr-x--- 2 root operator - 512 Jul 3 2005 quotas
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Mar 3 04:16 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 3 2005 rwho
drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel - 512 Jul 3 2005 spool
drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel - 512 Mar 23 2006 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin - 512 Jul 5 2005 usermin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel - 512 Oct 1 2005 webmail
drwx------ 2 root bin - 512 Jul 5 2005 webmin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel - 512 Jul 4 2005 yp
raq2: {64} mount -vv
mount_ffs: /dev/wd0a on /: specified device does not match mounted device
/dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local, root file system, fsid: 0x600/0x78b,
reads: sync
63243 async 8, writes: sync 247 async 185)
/dev/wd0f on /var type ffs (local, fsid: 0x605/0x78b, reads: sync 5036
async 0,
writes: sync 321 async 151)
/dev/wd0g on /tmp type ffs (local, fsid: 0x606/0x78b, reads: sync 756
async 0, w
rites: sync 58 async 42)
raq2: {65}