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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Watch your Redhat 7.3 systems closely.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On 2 out of 3 Redhat 7.3 systems I work
with the following problem has occurred.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I could not send mail or modem connect to the
system.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The logs for in and out mail and modem logs are in
/var/log/.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The inbound mail is stored in /var/spool/mail/
also.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I create a separate /var partition so the root does
not get filled up on production systems.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the 2 out of 3 systems mentioned above I
found that the /var/log/mailman error log extension names keep getting longer
and even though logrotate is supposed to run weekly, the number of empty error
log files exceeded 10,000 after less than 6 months of the system
running.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On 1 of the 3 systems mentioned above I found that
the /var/log mgetty error log extension names keep getting longer and even
though logrotate is supposed to run weekly, the number of empty error log files
exceeded 10,000 after less than 6 months of the system running.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Between the modem and mailman log files they filled
the inode allotment for the /var filesystem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had to use</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>find /var/log -name "*mgetty*" -exec rm {}
\;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>find /var/log/mailman -name "*error*" -exec rm
{} \;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to remove the files because it was to many files
for ls and rm to remove any other way.</FONT></DIV>
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