Re: [webmin-l] Is it normal for /var/webmin/modules/ directory to grow unchecked?

On 05/Apr/2018 10:42 Andrey Repin <[email protected]> wrote ..
> Greetings, Jamie Cameron!
> 
> >> >> Is it normal for /var/webmin/modules/ directory to grow unchecked?
> >> >> I have several hundred megs there dated from ages past.
> >> >> Some of which is no longer associated with anything in the current state
> of
> >> >> the system.
> >> 
> >> > It shouldn't grow that large. Which file or directory is taking up all the
> >> > disk space?
> >> 
> >> Primarily system-status (approx half a hundred) and virtual-server (several
> hundred).
> 
> > Are you checking this with the "du" command, or "ls -l" ? In some cases webmin
> uses
> > DBM format files that appear to consume a lot of disk space (as shown by ls -l)
> but
> > actually don't.
> 
> du (this is how I actually narrowed on it)
> This is after manual purging of nonexistent v'min accounts:
> 
> # du -ms * | sort -nr | head
> 100     virtual-server
> 61      system-status
> 1       xinetd
> 1       wuftpd
> 1       webminlog
> 1       webmincron
> 1       webmin
> 1       webalizer
> 1       vgetty
> 1       usermin

I'd recommend digging down into each directory with the "du" command, and
figure out which specific files or directories are so large on your system.

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