Questions tagged [tmp]
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PHP can't write to /tmp folder anymore after Apache update
Linux dist: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Server version: Apache/2.4.29
PHP Version: 7.4.20 with PHP-FPM
Recently this server did an automatic upgrade of Apache and ever since PHP can't write to /tmp breaking ...
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How to prevent tmpfs /tmp causing machine to run out of memory?
I have a virtual server (Debian 8.5, OpenVZ) that seems to run out of memory* when tmpfs-based /tmp is about 60% full.
(* while the system reports 2GB of memory still free, processes start to behave ...
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How much space is in a Solaris /tmp filesystem?
On Solaris, the /tmp filesystem is a filesystem of type "tmpfs". It's implemented in the kernel by allocated space from the virtual memory pool. That means allocation interacts with the available RAM ...
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Compiling passenger-install-nginx-module; "C compiler gcc is not found"
I am in the middle of a process of installing Redmine served with passenger and nginx with this tutorial. With the passenger-install-nginx-module, it works fine and during compiling it outputs an ...
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Logrotate is not working in /tmp
I'm facing a strange problem with logrotate on my Debian 10 server.
All in one, logrotate (v3.20.1) is working and rotating fine... except for some files in /tmp that I want to "skrink" ...
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Windows Creating tmp Files When Rotating Images
Windows server 2016 Standard
Client PC's Windows 2010 Enterprise 2019
We have a shared folder that contains images (jpgs), we've noticed that when an image is opened in the default windows image ...
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tmpwatch not deleting folders and mp3 files in /tmp
I have a process which moves files from our EC2 server to s3, we're not sure why but it stores them in /tmp whilst moving them, but for some reason it also leaves them there once the process has ...
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/tmp flooded with ".myapp" files
On my new server (dedicated, CentOs5), 2 or 3 .myapp files (like "51b9dc4cc246f.myapp", ~500 Mo) is created every minute under /tmp, fulling my harddisk at an alarming speed.
There is nothing in ...
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How to backup your MySQL database when /tmp is read only?
I have an Ubuntu server 12.04 with a corrupted ext4 file system on my /tmp partition :
$ dmesg | tail
[25300713.878456] end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 2019854
[25300713.882430] Aborting ...
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removed files from /tmp/ directory - can't login anymore
I'm a system integrator(evidently noob), and today i've made my first scan with rkhunter, a tool that look into the system for check the presence of rootkits.
After that scan i -foolishly- decided to ...
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/tmp always gets full even after resize
I have a cPanel Server with 4GB of Ram and 4GB of /tmp space. I always get this error:
Will this cause slow performance? and can I delete everything?
Drive Critical: /tmp (/var/tmp) is 95% full
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Delete files from /tmp/ CentOS6
I'm running Centos6 and inside mt /tmp/ folder I see these files
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 2016 fileinstall-1059639640221211034
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 30 2021 ...
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Debian 8 + PHP: /tmp/ Permission denied
I had a website running fine on Debian 7 + PHP 5.6, and recently decided to upgrade my Debian installation to Debian 8. Everything went fine, except for a small thing.
While running the same code, ...
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PHP fails to start sessions - disk corrupted?
In my Linux server, I can't login to my PHP application having an issue related to PHP sessions:
PHP Error Logs:
[Sat May 21 21:27:50 2011] [error] [client ] PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/tmp/...
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Why is Docker volume world-writable if set to /tmp?
For the context :
docker --version
Docker version 20.10.7, build 20.10.7-0ubuntu5~20.04.2
test 1 : volume is /myvolume
Here's my Dockerfile
FROM alpine:latest
USER 1000:1000
VOLUME /myvolume
and ...
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How large should the mysql temp folder be when altering table information like auto increment?
If I have 500GB table size, how big should the temp folder be in order to alter table information? I will be configuring temp in my.cnf and, in this example, I have 64 GB physical ram.
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Linux Mint 19 through WDS PXE does not boot
I find myself stuck trying to make linux mint 19 available from my wds.
I can boot windows, ubuntu, centos, debian, kali linux AND linux mint 18 with minimal problems but linux mint 19 just won't boot....
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Unable to clear up tmp
I had a bunch of files in /tmp that I cleared up by doing $ rm -rf ./tmp/*. However, I'm still unable to 'clear' that information, even after a reset. Here is what I have now:
$ cd Av-bash: cannot ...
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deletion of tmp directory content on RHEL
we have installed Web logic server 10.3.6 in RHEL 5.8.There also a "tmp" folder inside "domains/servers/tmp" folder..this is the path of tmp folder in my case.Now My query is "Is it Mandatory to ...
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Email queue won't send - No disc space left (running Centos 6.3)
I hope anyone can help me out with the following issue. I'm no longer receiving emails because they are getting stuck in the email queue.
I've tried the following:
System reboot (even between the ...
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Purge tmp directory per user
I've created on my fresh server a directory structure like this:
/home/$username/$domain/ (for example: /home/domaincom/domain.com/)
- public_html
- logs
- conf
- tmp
Everything works well, but ...
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Ephemeral Amazon disc mounted in /tmp
I would like to know what do you think about mounting the ephemeral disc in /tmp when using Ubuntu in AWS.
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using /tmp partition instead tmp folder under root partition
I’m very new on using Linux (Debian) and have following question.
I installed debian and during the process also created separate partition for /tmp.
How can I now make sure that server programs use ...
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Can I delete CGI*****-* files in /tmp dir
We have a bunch of different applications running on a web server and some of them started falling over; Quickly checking disk space we realised the tmp folder on a seperate partition had become full -...
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Wordpress error PCLZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4) when I'm trying to install, update a plugin, but the error is solved temporarily if I restart the server
Whenever I try to install or update a wordpress plugin, I get this error:
PCLZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4)
This is also happening if I edit a template from a layout manager or if I do anything that ...
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what's root cause of "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories"
Stuck at "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories" after reboot a server(Debian 9.5, 64bit), and solve by this "boot-stuck-at-a-start-job-is-running-for-create-...
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Trojan:PHP/Obfuse.AR!MSR Detection by Windows Defender [duplicate]
I have an AWS server running Windows 2016 Datacenter. From the past few days, Windows Defender has been reporting Trojan:PHP/Obfuse.AR!MSR pointing to random phpXXXX.tmp files inside C:\Windows\Temp ...
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Is /tmp ever cleared on my servers and VM that don't get
Random curiosity had me look up when exactly /tmp was cleared, to discover that most OS do it at shutdown or boot up. I had always thought it was more of a "whenever we need to reclaim space" logic.
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Cannot create symlink from /var/tmp to /tmp. Cannot delete /var/tmp - CentOS 7
I cannot delete /var/tmp as it says,
# rm -Rf /var/tmp
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/tmp’: Device or resource busy
Because of this, I cannot create a symbolic link from /var/tmp to /tmp.
How can I ...
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Windows Server: any built-in application that cleans TEMP folder(s)
Using Windows Server 2012 R2:
My application creates many temp files in a service account's temp folder:
C:\Users\SVC_ACCT\AppData\Local\Temp\
I need to build a PowerShell script that cleans the ...
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Mysql tmp file cause site exception error crash
Running Magento and every 3-15 days or so (fairly random) I get this error:
exception 'Zend_Db_Statement_Exception' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#...
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applications unable to use /tmp
The disk on a Ubuntu server filled up causing a website to fail and some database corruption. After freeing some space (rogue wordpress backup plugin) and reimporting the database we found some ...
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Apache: tmp is not writable
I've installed Drupal on a new webserver and I get the following errors:
warning: is_writable() [function.is-writable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s)...
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JBoss 5.1.0.GA and huge vfs-nested.tmp
I noticed this while running a performance test with JMeter. For first half an hour everything was fine and the /server/all/tmp directory size was around 36M.
Then suddenly the tmp directory grew up ...
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How to cleaning up /tmp
I have a CentOS web server with many clients on it. I see the /tmp reached DISKCRITICAL just after about two months since I made 8 GB (after expansion from 4 GB)! I want to know the reasons that make ...
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Is It safe to delete all files/directories from /tmp folder on ubuntu 14.04 rackspace server? [closed]
I am getting error unable to connect with mysql. when I googled I found It's because of size. It's showing /tmp 100% used. so can I completely remove all files from/tmp folder ?
#df -m /tmp
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massemail with attachment - tmp folder
I have a small mailing php script and I would like to extend it with attachment function (we have a DB for our staff to get contact with them).
As far as I understand I need a /tmp folder to be able ...
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Var folder maxing out /dev/mapper/vg00-var
Over the past few years we have had multiple linux servers have the same problem time and time again, our /dev/mapper/vg00-var folder max out at 100%. which means all sites on the server die.
We have ...
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PHP website grinds to halt for an hour, then runs fine....how to debug?
I have a PHP website which uses $_SESSION variables. It runs on Apache, Mysql and Ubuntu 14.04 on a very resourceful server (Amazon EC2 - M3.X-large)
For some unknown reason, the website virtually ...
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insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/updates/packages [closed]
I try to install vim-enhanced using #yum install vim-enhanced I got an error like this insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/updates/packages I found some answers to the this ...
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Why isnt this sudoer command run as root? [closed]
I want to give PHP access to a very specific script using a configuration under /etc/sudoers.d.
So I did the following:
visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/99-php
And entered this sudo rule:
www-data ALL = (...
