At 27 Aug 2002 10:37:17 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 20:43, Angus Lees wrote: > > At Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:15:47 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: > > > Ohhhhh, the penny may have just dropped this could be SOPHOS > > > doing a sweep, does that sound likely? > > > Out of disk space checking > > > /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz/perl-5.6.1.tar - > > > temporary directory is not large enough > > > > that directory (and directory structure) is normally used by the > > "CPAN" perl module (usually invoked with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"). in > > this case, it looks like root was running that command. > > Does the CPAN module clear out old archives after it's installed them? > If not, it could very well be SOPHOS trying to extract that old tarball > to scan the contents.
no CPAN.pm doesn't clear them out (well, it has a max size and it clears them out once its over that size. but only on the next invocation, iirc). -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
