On Tuesday 20 August 2002 10:43 pm, Peter Polman wrote:
> On August 20, 2002 09:30 am, John Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 10:53, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > > "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > Hi all...
> > > >
> > > > rpmdrake fills /var/tmp (or /usr/tmp, in my box are symlinked), with
> > > > temporary files not removed:
> > >
> > > i could not reproduce by starting rpmdrake, searching for frozen,
> > > installing frozen-bubble, nor by sorting by update availability
> > > and installing 19 updated packages.
> > >
> > > any method to reproduce?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
> >
> > I'm seeing the same problem.Initially caused my root partition to run
> > out of space. I had to created a symlink between /var/tmp and /usr/tmp
> > to get around this problem.
> >
> > Here's a snapshot of my /usr/tmp directory. Notice the timestamps which
> >
> > represents the various times I ran rpmdrake:
> > >Snip<<
>
> I'm still getting the rpm.tmp files practically for every downloaded
> package via grpmi. I just checked my var/temp when I came across the above
> postings and found that I had over 700 tmp files for a total of 1.2 GB of
> disk space. I flushed the directory and began some updates while monitoring
> the var/tmp folder. Practically every package that grpmi downloads
> generates a tmp file which doesn't ever get cleaned out. Watching the
> var/cache/urpmi folder shows downoaded packages appearing and get cleaned
> away properly. During the upgrades, after download but before installation,
> I can clear out the var/tmp directory with no ill side effects.
> I have been running rpmdrake from konsole because as I've mentioned in a
> previous post when I run from drakconf my CPU cycles and memory begin to
> overload quite quickly. I don't appear to have these problems while running
> rpmdrake, just the constant creation of the tmp files.
I just checked my /var/tmp and I also am getting the rpm.tmp files. I have
over 300 which I will now delete and free up the space. Can this be fixed? I
am using an up-to-date cooker and only upgrade with rpm drake
