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The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 10:00 +0800, tino perez wrote:
> Too late, now the machine wont boot! :)
X-)
> Seriously.. what directories are safe to clean?
>
> i too had a problem few-moths ago in where my system run out of space in
> a few short days after I inadvisable installed a intrusion detection
> system that created huge log files...
Well, /tmp is prety safe. Then there is /var/tmp, which some times is a
link to /tmp, sometimes not. I don't know why there are two temp dirs.
In fact, I have noticed that my "/etc/sysconfig/cron" doesn't have
/var/tmp included to cleanup.
Correction, it is included, but as those files are owned by root, they
are not cleaned up. Plus, there are two new variables:
MAX_DAYS_IN_LONG_TMP
LONG_TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR
The name "LONG_TMP" of the variables must be indicative of something :-?
Then, there are programs that use their own temporary space, which might
be under /tmp or not.
Plus, some old files have to be purged by their own applications. Printer
queues, fax, mail... usually, somewhere under /var/spool.
And there are some that don't clean up; for instance, snort.
Jobs for the admin! ;-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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