RHEL4 no free space on var even after cleanup

[Robert Becker Cope]

"Brandon Coale" <bcoale at freeway.net> wrote:

> I am running RHEL4 ES on a PowerEdge 6600.
>
> My df command shows that there is no space on /var even after I have
> deleted several big files.
>
> Has anyone seen this behavior before?

Odds are high that some process still has the deleted files open. Use `lsof` to
find out which process it is, then either restart it or figure out how to tell
it to reopen the files. For example, you can send syslog a HUP signal to tell
it to reload logs files. Good luck,

robert