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Subject: Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager
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I sym linked /tmp to /var/tmp things are happy.

thank you for everybody's help.

cheers,

Noah


RW wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:32:53 -0800
> Noah <admin2@enabled.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>     
>>> From rc.conf(5):
>>>
>>>      clear_tmp_enable
>>>                  (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at
>>> startup.
>>>
>>>       
>
> And also daily_clean_tmps_enable (in periodic.conf)
>
>   
>>> Why not setup a parallel (background) task with a wrapper script to 
>>> delete some files when upgrading ports? Either that or find a
>>> (more) free partition and symlink /var/tmp to it.
>>>
>>>       
>> yeah out of all the ideas this seems the easiest to implement and
>> just makes sense but I am having difficulties creating the sym link
>> for /tmp
>>     
>
> That doesn't make sense to me, it just sweeps the problem under the
> carpet. At the moment I'm in the middle of an upgrade with portmanager,
> and the *total* space used on /tmp is 1MB.
>
> How much of /tmp is actually in use by portmanager.
>
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