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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!news.va.pubnix.com!not-for-mail From: lidl@va.pubnix.com (Kurt J. Lidl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Disk full errors Date: 4 Oct 1995 11:54:41 -0400 Organization: AlterNet -- Falls Church, Virginia, USA Lines: 19 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <44uao1$ge2@arrow.va.pubnix.com> References: <davidp-2909951437400001@mac219.admin.biola.edu> <44jv9i$a73@zuul.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arrow.va.pubnix.com Keywords: inn news bsdi In article <44jv9i$a73@zuul.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: >In article <davidp-2909951437400001@mac219.admin.biola.edu>, >David Pisoni <davidp@leonardo.net> wrote: >> Sep 29 14:15:40 donatello kernel: uid 133 on /: file system full > >"sort" is creating a temporary file in "/tmp". > >Make "/tmp" a symlink to "/var/tmp" or something like that, so long as >you have plenty of space for scratch files there... Don't do that. If you are using BSDi, you should just set TMPDIR to /var/tmp. -Kurt -- /* Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@va.pubnix.com) UUCP: <ANYWHERE>!uunet!lidl */ /* Don't confuse my opinions with my employer's opinions! */ /* E-Mail info@va.pubnix.com for info on our shell accounts. */