/var error

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 15:22, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-07-09T08:36:50Z, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> writes:
> > Install sysutils/lsof and use it to find what program has a deleted file
> > open on /var; kill that program, and the space will be reclaimed.
> 
> I see that advice a lot.  Is lsof inherently superior to `fstat' in the base
> system?

fstat (everyone else who has this calls it "fuser", so I didn't even
know it was there) doesn't seem to provide much information; lsof gives
you enough to have a decent chance of identifying the file in question,
which is problematic when it doesn't have a name....

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