/var is getting full

[Alexandra Zaharia]

2009/10/10 Graham Watkins <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com>:
> Hi folks,
>
> The other day when installing some updates, I got a warning message
> saying that /var was too full.
>
> I checked using df and found it was 94% used.  (The partition is
> 4.2Gb.)  This certainly seems a lot.  My 9.04 installation is just over
> a month old so I'm surprised it's got full so quickly.
>
> What's the best (safest) way of slimming it down?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham

Hi Graham,

Delete the logs you no longer need. If you run a bunch of daemons
enabling verbose logging, the log files can get astonishingly big.