On Sunday 07 January 2007 11:33, Steve Searle wrote: > 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. > Excellent idea, Steve. Thanks. I've set it up, with --verbose for the moment. Anne
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