[Lancaster] running out of space

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:59:54PM +0100, Taylor Nuttall wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Folly uses a server for it's websites and mail etc.
> 
> It is a Private Srever hosted by an ISP running Red Hat Linux.
> 
> There is an applicance administration interface that I use to configure
> everything.
> 
> I can also use SSH and FTP to access the server, but most operational
> changes are done through the appliance administration online.
> 
> The problem I have is that the server is running out of space - this makes
> no sense. There is around 2GB of server space allocated to us - we use
> around 650Mb for current hosting, the OS will take up some more space, plus
> we have majordomo, mySQL and e-mail.
> 
> I suspect there is some rogue e-mail spooler stacking up gradually, but
> cannot find anything on the server that might correspond to some large files
> in the region of the many Mb needed to clog up the server.

Or un-rotated log files or it's been 0wned.

Try this to find the offending files -

du -k / | sort -n

(you probably want to redirect that into a file, it'll be *big* :)

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