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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:14:35 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: melk@switchpwr.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: pid 27828(sort), uid 65534 on /: file system full
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In the last episode (Oct 11), mel kravitz said:
> Hello,
> I am periodically getting the subject kernel log message:
> >pid 27828 (sort), uid 65534 on /: file system full
>
> What should i delete? Exactly what does this message imply? Mel

uid 65534 is 'nobody'.    The only thing I can think of that sorts as
user 'nobody' is locate.updatedb, which is usually run weekly.  If you
have a lot of files, it could fill up /tmp or /var/tmp (depends on
TMPDIR, set in /etc/locate.rc).  Try changing the TMPDIR to /usr/tmp,
if your /usr is large.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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