Around 11:20am on Sunday, January 07, 2007 (UK time), Anne Wilson scrawled: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 11:03, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > /tmp is filling up rapidly. I'm guessing that it would be safe enough to > > > delete everything dated previous to the last bootup. Am I right? > > > > The most logical question is, what is /tmp filling up with? I can't say > > that in a normally operating system I've seen /tmp filling up "rapidly" > > without a cause and I'm not the one to go willy-nilly deleting things > > without known why they are being created. > > Duh! I mis-read the logfile line. It's not really filling up, though there > are things that I think should be deleted. Anne, I run the following command in a cron job: tmpwatch --mtime --verbose --verbose 168 /tmp You may not want the --verbose, and check the manpage for the --mtime option, but basically this deletes all files in /tmp that have not been modified for 168 hours or more. Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 11:29:41 up 141 days, 13:56, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.08, 0.02
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