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- From: swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu
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- Subject: /tmp problems ...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.152902.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:29:02 GMT
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- Organization: Auburn University, AL
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- In some of our public SUN Sparcstations, the /tmp subdirectories keep
- filling up with "temporary" files until the file system is full. These
- files are left over from various jobs and are no longer needed. These files
- are erased whenever the workstations are rebooted, but we can't always
- reboot when we want to. I have considered creating a cron entry for each
- workstation that will erase all of the files in /tmp once a day (say at
- midnight or later). However, jobs are running 24 hours a day and I am
- afraid that I might accidently erase someone's temporary file(s) if I use
- this cron job.
-
- Does anyone have a suggestion that will help solve my problem?
-
- Thanks in advance!
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- David Swanger, Auburn University, Alabama, swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu
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