/tmp running out of space
Steve Searle
steve at stevesearle.com
Sun Jan 7 11:33:15 UTC 2007
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.
Steve
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