The Sunday 2004-12-19 at 10:54 -0600, Richard wrote:
Of course, that doesn't answer the question of why the tmp gets so large. Guess I need to look into cleaning out tmp periodically. On boot is not a good option cause I rarely reboot this machine.
There is a script in cron.daily that does it. Probably suse.de-clean-tmp. There are variables there that can be set in /etc/sysconfig.
Can I simply go into fstab and change /dev/hda10 /srv . . . to /dev/hda10 /tmp . . .
or do I need to do some other finger magic to make that change?
Mostly, yes. They have to be umounted at the time of change, of course. The howto I posted the other day coments it all.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson Thanks Carlos, that solved my problem. Also I discovered yesterday that crap left in the /tmp folder can cause some strange Kmail problems, too. My wifes machine wouldnt send cued messages and it listed a whole bunch of crap, some 40+ unsent messages. So I looked at the outgoing cur
On Friday 24 December 2004 02:54 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote: directory but it only had 5 messages, very strange. On a whim I deleted the /tmp dir. and darned if that didnt clear up the problem. I'm gonna do the cron thing to clean out the /tmp dir periodically. Thanks again, and have a feliz navidad y prospero ano nuevo. Richard -- Old age ain't for Sissies!