On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:38, Boris Glawe wrote: > Anne Wilson schrieb: > > /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? > > > > Anne > > It should actually be easier to go to runlevel 1 and remove everything > in /tmp. It's very unlikely that there are any processes left that need > /tmp in runlevel 1. > > You should investigate, why you /tmp in filling up rapidly. Maybe this > command helps to find the file/directory, that consumes most of the disk > space: > > du -sm * | sort -n > > du -sm .??* | sort -n (for all hidden files and directories) > > greets Boris Hi, Boris. Thanks for the input. I was a bit worried, but it seems that I mis-read the logwatch file. It wasn't anywhere near full, though there were some old print jobs that needed cleaning out. Anne
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