Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 7, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Noah wrote: From rc.conf(5): clear_tmp_enable (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup. Why not setup a parallel (background) task with a wrapper script to delete some files when upgrading ports? Either that or find a

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 07:43:01 (PM) Noah wrote: I dont think this is an adequate solution. /tmp is filling up during the portmanager run. in other words - while I am running /tmp fills up. so it needs to be erased periodically while portmanager is running or else no other

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:32:53PM -0800, Noah wrote: From rc.conf(5): clear_tmp_enable (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup. Why not setup a parallel (background) task with a wrapper script to delete some files when upgrading ports? Either

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-08 Thread RW
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:32:53 -0800 Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-08 Thread Robert Huff
RW writes: clear_tmp_enable (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup. And also daily_clean_tmps_enable (in periodic.conf) Before doing this, understand the consequences, There's stuff in my /tmp ... I understand /who/ put it

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-08 Thread RW
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:59:28 -0500 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW writes: clear_tmp_enable (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup. And also daily_clean_tmps_enable (in periodic.conf) Before doing this, understand the

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-08 Thread Noah
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From rc.conf(5): clear_tmp_enable (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup.

/tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Noah
Hi there, /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build details during its run. what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 06:43:15 (PM) Noah wrote: /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build details during its run. what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates? Erase them. Besides how much trouble can they be causing? Honestly,

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Noah
Hi, I dont think this is an adequate solution. /tmp is filling up during the portmanager run. in other words - while I am running /tmp fills up. so it needs to be erased periodically while portmanager is running or else no other packages can be downloaded are there other solutions? what

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:43:15PM -0800, Noah wrote: Hi there, /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build details during its run. what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates? Well, you could move /tmp to a bigger space. I think it is

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Noah wrote: Hi, I dont think this is an adequate solution. /tmp is filling up during the portmanager run. in other words - while I am running /tmp fills up. so it needs to be erased periodically while portmanager is running or else no other packages can be downloaded are there other

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build details during its run. what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates? Well, you could move /tmp to a bigger space. I think the best practice would be to a)

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Noah
From rc.conf(5): clear_tmp_enable (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup. 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