Re: PPP: won't disconnect.
Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
>
> The system log, "messages", can fill up to 3 to 5 megabytes in a
> session. Yet when I delete it, the space does not show up, at least
> not consistently, when I issue a "df".
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Alan Davis
>
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> Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10
> adavis@saipan.com AAA 196 Box 10,001 145o 42.5'E
> Saipan, MP 96950
> Northern Mariana Islands
If you delete the log and syslog is still running then it has an
open file descriptor on that file. The blocks won't be released until
syslog closes that descriptor or exits. Doing a kill -HUP on the
syslog process may do the trick.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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