Questions tagged [tmp]
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When does /tmp get cleared?
I'm taking to putting various files in /tmp, and I wondered about the rules on deleting them?
I'm imagining it's different for different distributions, and I'm particularly interested in Ubuntu and ...
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How to change default /tmp to /home/user/tmp
Is there an environment variable to set the temporary directory on debian based systems?
I have a java applet that uses that environement variable and it's getting confused when launching two ...
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Boot stuck at "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories"
I think something generated millions of files or folders in my /tmp on Ubuntu 18.04, as I'm unable to run ls /tmp or even rm -rf /tmp/*. So I tried rebooting, but now my machine's stuck at the step:
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Does Ubuntu Server have any sort of cron job to automatically clear /tmp?
I know it clears out /tmp on reboots, but I haven't been able to find any sort of cron job on my server that clears /tmp. I recently set up a script that writes lots of files to /tmp and my server ...
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Why even my root user cannot write in the /tmp directory?
I cannot write in the /tmp directory.
This as a non root user:
europasprak@vps-xxxxxxxx:~$ echo 'ok' > /tmp/dummy
-bash: /tmp/dummy: Operation not permitted
and
europasprak@vps-xxxxxxxx:~$ sudo ...
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lsof shows tmp growing file marked as deleted
I have a cron that generated a lot (15GB) of PHP warnings and was writing them in a log file.
I killed the process and as a temporary measure I stopped redirecting stderr to stdout so I don't fill up ...
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delete all folders with tmp in name using batch file
Have tried to google this, but I always seem to get results relating to .tmp files, which isnt really any use.
I have only a basic understanding of batch files, but I think I need something like this:...
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Cleanup of /tmp
What mechanism controls how often/when the /tmp directory is cleaned up. If there is such built-in mechanism at all or do I need to resort to a custom cron?
I'd appreciate either a specific command/...