Boyd~
Thanks for the response.  I did clean out /var/tmp, and the emerge still
fails. I posted a separate email to the list with the errors... If you can
think of something, I'd appreciate your feedback.

-----Original Message-----
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleanup / pkg error

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:30 am, "John Dangler" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I looked around for this, and, in my search,
> found the following command, the context of which said that it could be
> run from cron. I'm just wondering if it's safe to 'clear out' /var/tmp
> files (and hoping this will allow me to finish compiling openoffice).
>
> find /tmp /var/tmp -not -type d -mtime +3 -print0 |
>   xargs --null --no-run-if-empty rm -f
>
> All input is welcome.

Unless you use /var/tmp or /tmp for some sort of long time storage, this 
should be fine.  It simply deletes all files in those directories that 
haven't been modified in 3 days or more.

Personally, I just do:
rm -rfv * .[^.]*
in /var/tmp if I run out of compiling room.  Never caused a problem for me, 
yet.

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