-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. >> > I have a problem, Steve. Running that command from a root konsole works fine, > so I set it to run as a cron job every Wednesday. Now I find that from both > boxes where I set this up I'm getting root emails that say > > /bin/sh: tmpwatch: command not found > > What could be wonrg? > > Anne > $ locate tmpwatch /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch /usr/sbin/tmpwatch /usr/share/man/man8/tmpwatch.8.gz What happens if you give it the full path? ( /usr/sbin/tmpwatch instead of just tmpwatch ) ciao, furlan - -- Music: http://www.myspace.com/acidredux Links: http://del.icio.us/furlan Home: http://flprim.us/index.html "Play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--is what allows human beings to transcend evil." - -- Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpmlhbi10WxsICPgRAqs5AJ9Ckt8qd51J7w9isJUDAhqQmDdvFgCglK+9 1G7W5UVzExivWGje92zPc3k= =LR0q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
