[K12OSN] cpu hog woes maybe figured..

[Huck]

first I 'init 1'  then I cd /tmp  then I rm -rf *
and it re-init'd to 5!!

so I tried in 5...logging in on console1 ctrl-alt-f1...cd /tmp , rm -rf 
*.... and it autologged me off!

boggles

--Huck

Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:

> Huck wrote:
>
>> I have a gazillion(really can't count) files in /tmp
>>
>> where I notice xses-<user>  and orbit-<user>
>> puts/gets info from...
>>
>> so I figure it's the cpu max'n out trying to access that info...
>>
>> all filenames start with a like 6 digit name followed by 9 characters 
>> incremented
>>
>> ie..  ...
>> dummie1a01bOJkw
>> dummie1a01bOJkx
>> dummie1a01bOJky
>> ...
>> and so on and so forth...
>>
>> when I attempt to 'rm dummie*' I get a bash error about the argument 
>> list being too long...
>>
>> HELP?!?!
>> some script guru out there?
>>
>> --Huck
>>
>
> Try it this way and let us know:
>
> When you cd to your /tmp directory, then, as root, issue the "rm -rf 
> *" command.
>
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