-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 10:00 +0800, tino perez wrote:
Too late, now the machine wont boot! :)
X-)
Seriously.. what directories are safe to clean?
i too had a problem few-moths ago in where my system run out of space in a few short days after I inadvisable installed a intrusion detection system that created huge log files...
Well, /tmp is prety safe. Then there is /var/tmp, which some times is a link to /tmp, sometimes not. I don't know why there are two temp dirs. In fact, I have noticed that my "/etc/sysconfig/cron" doesn't have /var/tmp included to cleanup. Correction, it is included, but as those files are owned by root, they are not cleaned up. Plus, there are two new variables: MAX_DAYS_IN_LONG_TMP LONG_TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR The name "LONG_TMP" of the variables must be indicative of something :-? Then, there are programs that use their own temporary space, which might be under /tmp or not. Plus, some old files have to be purged by their own applications. Printer queues, fax, mail... usually, somewhere under /var/spool. And there are some that don't clean up; for instance, snort. Jobs for the admin! ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGXVDxtTMYHG2NR9URAm0BAJ0b8ra3Uh/2ZGVXiuKWKFtUK8E7lACeJHQ9 Yn1QyHgfkwk1IlwPYrBtrXk= =Jfgn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org