[ale] /tmp directory full!!

[mark]

The /tmp subdirectory is under / which is it's own partition ~ 2.5 Gig.
What kicks up red flags for me, /tmp is world readable and writable.  It
should have the sticky bit set by default under Redhat??!  I'm running
Bastille, runs a script which handles the /tmp subdirectory.  Though, I
haven't looked at the Bastille code to understand what it's doing to the
/tmp files.  The volume of tmp files is concerning even though I missed a
daily tmpwatch!

--Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Day" <jasonday at worldnet.att.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] /tmp directory full!!


> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:43:31AM -0500, mark wrote:
> > 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??
>
> It depends on what distribution you use as to how/when /tmp is flushed,
> if ever.  Debian flushes /tmp at every boot, I think some versions of
> RedHat use a cron job, and I'm sure others don't do anything.
>
> Is /tmp a separate partition?  How big is it?  What kind of files are in
> there?
> --
> Jason Day                                       jasonday at
> http://jasonday.home.att.net                    worldnet dot att dot net
>
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