From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 06:56:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25253 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 06:56:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from switch2.switchpwr.com ([12.14.48.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA25220 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 06:56:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melk@switchpwr.com) Received: from switch2.switchpwr.com (root@switch2.switchpwr.com [12.14.48.20]) by switch2.switchpwr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA24398; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:54:11 -0400 Message-ID: <36220A03.3143B0B5@switchpwr.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:54:11 +0000 From: mel kravitz X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01GoldC-Caldera (X11; I; Linux 2.0.31 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pid 27828(sort), uid 65534 on /: file system full References: <36213C9C.51C9@switchpwr.com> <19981011221435.A4619@emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message