Hello, On a RH 8.0 PC, connected to the internet by dialup, I have found 68019 empty log files. I came to realize it when the dialup script said that it could not create lock in /var for lack of space. Since there *was* space, and I remembered reading somewhere that more than 10000 files per directory make ext3 choke, I looked around and found those files. Namely, the output of cd /var/ ls -lrt log|grep vgetty|cat -n > /tmp/vgettystrange looks like this (last five lines, "compressed" for clarity): 68015 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4.1 68016 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4 68017 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4.2 68018 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4.1.1 68019 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.2 Owner and group are always root, I cut that to fit on one email line, as mentioned. Where do they come from? Any comment? TIA, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
