For the second time in 2 weeks my server has gone down due to running
out of inodes in /tmp. The first time it did this /tmp was filled
with files, so that made sense. I delete all the files from /tmp and
all was well for a few weeks. Just this morning it did it again (keep
in mind
On Thursday 18 December 2008 10:54:33 Tankko wrote:
On a side question...what the the best policy for deleting files from
/tmp? Seems like a lot of apps are happy to leave files in /tmp.
What kind of files are you seeing in /tmp? I have files in mine from July, but
only about 7,000 files
In the last episode (Dec 18), Tankko said:
For the second time in 2 weeks my server has gone down due to running
out of inodes in /tmp. The first time it did this /tmp was filled
with files, so that made sense. I delete all the files from /tmp and
all was well for a few weeks. Just
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:54:33AM -0800, Tankko wrote:
On a side question...what the the best policy for deleting files from
/tmp? Seems like a lot of apps are happy to leave files in /tmp. Is
clean up commonly done as a cron job? What about files like
mysql.sock= which are important. I
As Kirk has already said, you need to figure why this is happening in
the first place, but there is a periodic job which can help keep /tmp
tidy for you. It is in /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps and can be
enabled with this in /etc/periodic.conf:
daily_clean_tmps_enable=YES
You can
