kashani wrote:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> kashani wrote:

>>>Assuming it's a database server a full /tmp will cause some issues.
>> 
>> In how far? Neither Oracle nor MySQL write to /tmp. MySQL may create
>> a socket file, which by default resides in /tmp. But /tmp is a rather
>> bad place for such a file anyway...
> 
> Never ran a Mysql query that returned more results than would fit in ram 
> have you?

Yes, I have.

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep tmp /etc/mysql/my.cnf
> tmpdir                                          = /tmp/

Okay, default value. Can be changed, though.

> Not sure about other db servers.
> 
> Also Apache writes session date to /tmp

Don't know where Apache writes session stuff to. It's
new to me, that Apache had a session handling at all...
I just know the PHP session hadnling. And yes, this,
by default, writes to /tmp as well.

> and PHP pear stuff uses /tmp as 
> well.

Possibly, yes.

Alexander Skwar
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