On 1/1/07, wb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi.

I have a /tmp FS for swap, and a really big file crout* inside. The /tmp
was 95% up.
I decided to remove the crout file.
The problem, is the /tmp is not decreasing, but still growing.

How could I make it decrease?


Find and kill the process that's writing to that file.

It'll be a cron job (the crout* name is the giveaway). To see which
processes
are being run under cron, try something like:

ptree `pgrep cron`

and kill the errant one. (Once you've worked out why it's generating
so much output so it won't do it again. It may try to mail the file -
although the delete may be enough to prevent that, so I would watch
what's happening afterwards to make sure that nothing else has been
launched.)

--
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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