On Thursday 11 January 2007 05:08, 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.
Hey! Very cool, thank you. I was running out of space on my lappie and eventually noticed about 20G of files in /tmp/kai - never even knew the folder existed. Of course, I deleted everything, since nothing seemed to be needed. Now I will just have it continually empty. -- kai - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com www.filesite.org || www.donutmonster.com wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
