On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 08:08 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote: > On Thu January 11 2007 07:54, Nick Zentena wrote: > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:51, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > on a SuSE9.2 with aprox. 150 users over time since 2004, the /tmp dir now > > > holds something like +12000 files and some 3.5G in size. > > > > > > - would it be safe to go to runlevel 2 and delete all that? > > > > Check Yast. I don't remember with 9.2 but there is likely a setting to > > automatically delete tmp files on a schedule. I've no idea why the default > > is to not delete. > > In YaST: > System -> /etc/sysconfig Editor ->System->Cron > > I've used these settings since 8.2 to avoid your problem: > > TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR = /tmp /var/tmp > CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOT = yes > > I'd be inclined to enable these settings then reboot the system to confirm > they've 'taken' and the space recovered. >
They can also be set to delete files after they are a certain age. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
