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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:54:11 +0000
From:      mel kravitz <melk@switchpwr.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pid 27828(sort), uid 65534 on /: file system full
Message-ID:  <36220A03.3143B0B5@switchpwr.com>
References:  <36213C9C.51C9@switchpwr.com> <19981011221435.A4619@emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> 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
Thank you-i will change /tmp to /usr/tmp, thanks again for the fast
response.-mel

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