Under Solaris 9, my system is complaining that the /var directory is full.

Hi,
What can I do to free up space in the /var directory without deleting or removing important files used by other processes and programs? Please help anyone!
WannaBgeek

Hello,
Most of the files in /va/adm folder are log files, you can safely delete/empty those files( caution: Dont delete the files without .0 or .1 etc extensions, Some applications does not work if log file does not exists). Make those files empty instead of deleting it. Do the same in /var/log folder.
example:
root@sal # ls -al /var/adm/
total 3544
drwxrwxr-x 9 root sys 512 Sep 26 03:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 37 root sys 1024 Dec 31 2007 ..
drwxrwxr-x 5 adm adm 512 Feb 15 2007 acct
-rw------- 1 uucp bin 0 Feb 14 2007 aculog
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Feb 14 2007 exacct
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 14028 Sep 26 14:32 lastlog
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Feb 14 2007 log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31550 Sep 26 08:24 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88561 Sep 25 09:31 messages.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 198286 Sep 18 19:02 messages.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 223531 Sep 11 15:07 messages.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195692 Sep 4 19:42 messages.3
drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Feb 14 2007 passwd
drwxrwxr-x 2 adm sys 512 Feb 15 2007 sa
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Feb 14 2007 sm.bin
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root bin 0 Feb 14 2007 spellhist
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Feb 14 2007 streams
-rw------- 1 root root 7628 Sep 22 16:18 sulog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 6696 Sep 26 14:32 utmpx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 15 2007 vold.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 adm adm 990636 Sep 26 14:32 wtmpx
You can do rm on /var/adm/ messages.0, /var/adm/ messages.1 etc
Empty the other files using > ex: > /var/adm/ messages; > /var/adm/sulog
Thanks,
sal.

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