From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 16 03:36:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA03228 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 03:36:03 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA03147 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 03:35:19 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA28429; Sun, 15 Jan 1995 19:31:25 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id TAA26117 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Jan 1995 19:31:24 +0100 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA04197; Sun, 15 Jan 1995 19:01:32 +0100 From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199501151801.TAA04197@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: Re: uid 32767 on /var: file system full To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 19:01:31 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199501142327.QAA13800@clem.systemsix.com> from "Steve Passe" at Jan 14, 95 04:27:01 pm X-Phone: +49-351-8141 137 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 680 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Steve Passe wrote: | | I don't know how clean this is, but it works, modify /etc/daily by | adding the following 2 lines before the first actions: | | TMPDIR=/usr/tmp | export TMPDIR This is ugly (at least to accept it as default). It should always be possible to mount /usr read-only (e.g. via NFS). If some local /tmp is unable to hold enough space, make it a symlink to somewhere with more space instead. Does locate.updatedb use /var/tmp or /tmp? -- cheers, J"org work: --- no longer --- private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)