On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 19:44 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > 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 sorry little finger bug there!! what I did was rm -rf /tmp/* at least I didn't type rm -rf / !!!!!! > > 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. > /tmp is still there, ls -ld gives drwxrwxrwt 42 root root 4096 Dec 14 17:46 /tmp Laurence --
