On Monday 13 December 2004 7:29 pm, Laurence Orchard wrote: > I was running out of space on / , so I thought > > <lightbulb on> > !I know I'll clear /tmp cos it's 100M! > </lightbulb off> > > Very easy rm -rf /tmp Hello Laurence, Well...I think what you wanted to do was: rm -rf /tmp/* and NOT: rm -rf /tmp There's a big difference on the above commands. On the last one (the one you used) you wiped everything inside /tmp and also wiped /tmp itself! When I clean /tmp (which I rarely do because the system takes care of it) I switch to runlevel 3. While running at runlevel 5 most desktop enviroments (KDE , Gnome) use /tmp so shouldn't do it while X is running. Ok, did you create the tmp directory again? If not, do it like this (as root of course): init 3 cd / mkdir tmp chmod 1444 tmp init 5 ...and then see it everything works again. HTH, Jorge
