lyman@inference.com (John Lyman) (08/20/90)
I have a small problem... Since last Monday, August, 13, sometime shortly
after 01:00 the file /var/adm/usracct grows out of control. My machine,
infer1, is a Sun 3/260 with 16Meg of memory, and is a very generic machine.
Infer1 serves as the corporate mail server and mailhost for the internet
via a uucp connection. Our network has approx 50 workstations of varying
types on it. The master yp/nis server is a Sun 4/490 which was upgraded
to SunOS 4.1 the previous weekend.
As can be seen from the output below, Infer1 has a single Xylogics/Fujitsu
333 Meg disk on it. The root partition is 7.8 Meg.
Obviously, when /var/adm/usracct grows to ~500Meg, something is wrong, and
Infer1, which is running SunOS 4.0.3 believes the root partition is full,
and ceases to function properly.
Until last Monday, Infer1 has functioned flawlessly for over a year without
a hitch.
Any clues, hints or ideas where my problem is would be appreciated.
Additional info available upon request...
Output from df before removing /var/adm/usracct
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Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/xy0a 7830 7611 0 108% /
/dev/xy0d 63447 49410 7692 87% /usr
/dev/xy0e 141777 70063 57536 55% /usr1
AUGUST 18, 1990
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drwxr-sr-x 2 bin staff 512 Aug 19 11:25 .
drwxr-sr-x 9 bin staff 512 Aug 13 07:57 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 99936 Aug 18 01:23 acct
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 0 May 20 14:40 aculog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 0 Aug 17 10:49 lpd-errs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 994 Aug 18 04:14 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 122880 Aug 18 01:57 messages.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 47 Aug 6 10:47 messages.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 430 Aug 2 19:27 messages.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 47 Jul 24 16:58 messages.3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 0 Aug 17 10:50 sacacct
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 592707724 Aug 18 01:34 usracct
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 324 Aug 19 11:24 wtmp
Output fron df after removing /var/adm/usracct
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Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/xy0a 7830 2161 4886 31% /
/dev/xy0d 63447 49410 7692 87% /usr
/dev/xy0e 141777 70063 57536 55% /usr1
Previous listings of /var/adm
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AUGUST 17, 1990
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drwxr-sr-x 2 bin staff 512 Aug 16 17:46 .
drwxr-sr-x 9 bin staff 512 Aug 13 07:57 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 676864 Aug 17 01:13 acct
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 0 May 20 14:40 aculog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 19464 Aug 17 10:37 lpd-errs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 119932 Aug 17 10:38 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 47 Aug 6 10:47 messages.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 430 Aug 2 19:27 messages.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 47 Jul 24 16:58 messages.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 191 Jul 16 20:23 messages.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 16740 Aug 11 00:15 savacct
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 491782340 Aug 17 01:24 usracct
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80244 Aug 17 12:45 wtmp
AUGUST 15, 1990
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drwxr-sr-x 2 bin staff 512 Aug 15 10:45 .
drwxr-sr-x 9 bin staff 512 Aug 13 07:57 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 464768 Aug 15 01:17 acct
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 0 May 20 14:40 aculog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 63056 Aug 15 10:45 lastlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 17384 Aug 15 04:49 lpd-errs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 98304 Aug 15 08:33 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 47 Aug 6 10:47 messages.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 430 Aug 2 19:27 messages.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 47 Jul 24 16:58 messages.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 191 Jul 16 20:23 messages.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 16740 Aug 11 00:15 savacct
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 524812484 Aug 15 01:28 usracct
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80244 Aug 15 10:45 wtmp
I will sumarize responses, and when the problem is determined identify
and ppost the fix.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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