Hi All

I want to clean up unwanted and disk occupying files in the unix servers I manage. I am in the process of cleaning up /mqueue which is located under '/var/spool' as a root user.

The permissions are as below :

drwxrwxr-x 2 root system 226816 Oct 13 05:58 mqueue

Snip of bash shell is below :

svr01:root:/var/spool> >mqueue
Cannot write to a directory.
ksh[2]: mqueue: 0403-005 Cannot create the specified file.

Snip of a file within mqueue shows I dont have execute permissions :

-rw------- 1 root system 0 Apr 18 13:46 tfm3I7kTu90218

Please suggest me some steps to clean up the folder which always keeps growing.

Also, let me know what are the files under /var could be deleted in order make the disk left with space all the time.

Let me know if i am missing something obvious!


- Vathsan.

How large is your /var file system?
There is potentially quite a bit that can take a lot of space from var. The mail files are one example. If you run MQSeries the logs and error files can be stored under /var/mqm. These can take up a LOT of space if not monitored. The spool directory as you mentioned has the mail, syslog, printer queues and other stuff. What files do you have in the mqueue directory that take up so much space? The examples you have provided are not clear.

All depending on what you have already, the easy solution is to grow the /var file system and be done with it.

Staying outside the /mqueue, I was not able to clean up files as there were lots and lots of files in it. I managed to clean up all files by typing the relative path by getting into /mqueue. /var has now got some good space to hold more files. Thanks for your help!.

- Vathsan.