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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.bawue.de!luva.lb.bawue.de!luva.lb.bawue.de!not-for-mail From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: kernel warning for /tmp Date: 9 Dec 1995 08:32:37 +0100 Organization: private BSD/OS site Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4abe2l$jql@luva.lb.bawue.de> References: <4a26v3$9mt@presence.lglobal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: luva.lb.bawue.de In article <4a26v3$9mt@presence.lglobal.com>, Colin P. Ryan <drop@lglobal.com> wrote: >Hey there. > > >I'm running BSD/OS 2.0 on a P90 64MB RAM 2Gig drive etc etc. > > >As of yesterday syslog has been giving me the following: > >presence kernel: uid 0 on /tmp: file system full > >What does this mean? What is causing it? It does mean exactly what it says :-) As *many* programs write temporary files into the /tmp dir there could be various reasons for this message. One that comes to mind is the news system (innd) that requieres a lot of /tmp space for sortimg its history file for example. >I've looked in the /tmp directory(it is running mfs) and it is >only 1% full of ~ 8 Megs. This doesn' t mean to much as temp files are often removed if the task fails which caused them to be written - and this gives the impression /tmp has enough space. >Should this be larger? Definitely (you should evaluate the idea of having a traditional /tmp dir instead of a mfs one. mfs is fast, ok - but quite often to small). >What should the perms and ownership be. This just came out of nowhere. I would say 777 or better 1777. -- Michael Giegerich, E-Mail: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de, Voice: +49 7144 39337