/tmp running out of space

[Steve Searle]

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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A:  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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