[Tech] server machinations

[Edmund R. MacKenty]

Daniel Melnechuk writes:
>After copying was successful, i then deleted the ones on /var/log/ 
>httpd. Curiously enough, the disk usage level did NOT go down. The  
>server was in the classic funky state as systems admin like to say.
>
>Then i restarted the server to flush out the funky state. And it  
>worked. I don't like to just restart to flush out stuff but if this  
>happens again, then we need to track down what was up.

The disk usage level did not go down because the syslog daemon still had
all the log files you had deleted from /var/log open.  Thus the space they
occupied was not freed up.  You can restart just the syslog daemon instead
of rebooting the system to take care of that problem.
	- MacK.
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Edmund R. MacKenty

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