HI Rick, Thanks for your time but I am already aware of what you have stated, I am more ,about my other queries, i.e --Remove/reload/wipe process who's ps output comes with D+ stat --How to trace running script/process , were it is blocked/hold (basically exact line of script), (any combination of linux command) --process/users details of using resource ( disk partition, memory, files, etc) .(other than fuser)?. It will be a great help to me if you (or any one) can provide me a pointer regarding the same. Btw, Thanks again for your support. --Alok <div>On 4/10/09, Rick Stevens <<a href="mailto:ricks@nerd.com">ricks@nerd.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> <div>alok pandey wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> Hi Recently I experienced a problem on one of user-desktop machine (centos5.2), when a user(with all access) deleted the file /var/log/messages to free some space (as df -h was showing /var 100% full), but still df -h shows 100% full. It takes around 10 min to figure out the problem. To resolve it, I just reloaded the syslog service. ( I was luck that user told me what he did before, otherwise I am sure it will take min of 1 to 2 hour ) I want to know that is there any way to get perfect details of such misguiding output. (one i know is fuser, but i didn't find it's helpful). To be more specific about problem I want to know ,Is there any way in Linux(centos) to do the following :- --Remove/reload/wipe process who's ps output comes with D+ stat --How to trace running script/process , were it is blocked/hold (basically exact line of script) --process/users details of using resource ( disk partition, memory, files, etc) . </blockquote> </div> When you free up space in a directory, all of the files in that directory must be closed before the free space will appear. As long as a program holds an open file there, the free space won't appear. In your case, syslog was holding /var/log/messages open so the free space was hidden. When you restarted syslog, it closed /var/log/messages allowing the true state of things to appear. It then reopened the file and life continues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer <a href="mailto:ricks@nerd.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ricks@nerd.com</a> - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Redhat-install-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Redhat-install-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list</a> To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: <a href="mailto:redhat-install-list-request@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">redhat-install-list-request@redhat.com</a> Subject: unsubscribe </blockquote></div> -- Thanks ALOK PANDEY