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dswissmiss
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 Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:09 am Post subject: emptying /tmp |
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Hi guys,
I have /root on a 5 gig partition with a seperate /home, but now I'm getting all kids of errors about /tmp being full. How do I empty it, and I read something about having a cron-damon doing this for you, can anyone explain it to me?
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orionrobots
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In many cases - cleaning out tmp can depend on what you have running at the time. As long as any work from a desktop app is saved, /tmp is okay to clean, as deamons and system process will use /var.
Even if someone has something like a KDE session open, removing temp will more slow them down that destroy what is going on.
cron can be set up to clean out tmp with someting like this in cron.daily or cron.weekly:
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#!/bin/sh
cd /tmp
rm -rf
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I would name it cleantmp or something.
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dswissmiss
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Oops, I deleted /tmp by mistake.
I made another directory called /tmp, but now some programs can't write to it, like gnome, and only root can start firefox for example.
How do I get it back?
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mrsteven
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chmod a+rwx /tmp
chmod o+t /tmp
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EDIT: Sorry, forgot /tmp... 
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dswissmiss
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| Edit: It worked...thanx! |
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