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- From: kaehler@zk3.dec.com (Todd Kaehler UEG)
- Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of df and /tmp
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.174552.22569@decvax.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Jul20.152235.20345@news.uakron.edu> <1992Jul20.191613.7490@prl.dec.com> <21181@rpp386.lonestar.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:45:52 GMT
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- In article <21181@rpp386.lonestar.org>, jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
- >From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
- >Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of df and /tmp
- >Date: 21 Jul 92 12:45:43 GMT
- >
- >In article <1992Jul20.191613.7490@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul20.152235.20345@news.uakron.edu>, david@vax1.cc.uakron.edu (David Sumitra) writes:
- >>> Is there no other way (other than newfs) an SA can clear a /tmp in this
- >>> situation?
- >>
- >>he newfs `solution' is just a red herring. Find the offending process and
- >>deal with it in some way or other.
- >
- >Probably can't even do it with `newfs' since the unmount should fail due
- >to there being an open file on the device. This sounds like an excellent
- >time for `fuser -k'
- >--
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- You may want to check and see if there are users with large mail spool
- files that are using bsd mail. bsd mail works with an open unlinked
- copy of the mail spool file in /tmp when a user is running mail.
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- Todd Kaehler TCP/IP: kaehler@zk3.dec.com
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