[ale] /tmp directory full!!

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Wed Feb 5 10:36:08 EST 2003


Mark,

Rebooting won't clear tmp.  This is usually handled by a cron job.  Red
Hat comes with tmpwatch...a program that deletes files that haven't been
accessed for a certain number of days in /tmp.  It runs as a daily cron
job.

You could look at tmpwatch, or set up your own.

John

mark said:
> Yep, I flushed it manually ..rm -rf /tmp/*.  What has my curiosity up,
> why isn't the /tmp being flushed?  And, I really thought rebooting would
> flush it, but it didn't??  Is it possible I've got something mischievous
> running in /tmp??
>



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