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How to clean files under /var/spool/abrt directory?

Question & Answer


Question

/var file system is almost full now with many files under /var/spool/abrt directory.

Cause

All crash report and back trace from kernel driver is written on subdirectories of /var/spool/abrt directory.

Answer

To permanently stop this back trace gathering, we need to stop below two processes.

# service abrtd stop

# service abrt-oops stop

And we can remove all those directories and files with following rm command:

# abrt-cli rm /var/spool/abrt/*

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 October 2019

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