Re: [Toolserver-l] /tmp is not a waste dump

2013-03-17 Thread Tim Landscheidt
(anonymous) wrote:

 few minutes ago I had to clean ortelius' /tmp again because it was nearly full
 (there is up to 13GB space).
 Using temp-files is a great thing and we all know that clean-up is boring 
 stuff
 – but please: If you can not make your tools clean after them self then YOU
 have to clean up for them from time to time. /tmp at ortelius contains over
 9000 small files at the moment – I VERY doubt that most of them are still
 needed. So please look what is still needed, fix your tools and/or write a
 cleaning-script. Otherwise I have to write a system-wide script that will
 delete all files that are older than x days.

 [...]

Why not just install tmpreaper?

Tim


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Re: [Toolserver-l] /tmp is not a waste dump

2013-03-17 Thread Tim Landscheidt
I wrote:

 few minutes ago I had to clean ortelius' /tmp again because it was nearly 
 full
 (there is up to 13GB space).
 Using temp-files is a great thing and we all know that clean-up is boring 
 stuff
 – but please: If you can not make your tools clean after them self then YOU
 have to clean up for them from time to time. /tmp at ortelius contains over
 9000 small files at the moment – I VERY doubt that most of them are still
 needed. So please look what is still needed, fix your tools and/or write a
 cleaning-script. Otherwise I have to write a system-wide script that will
 delete all files that are older than x days.

 [...]

 Why not just install tmpreaper?

Because it doesn't work on Solaris.  D'oh!

Tim


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Re: [Toolserver-l] /tmp is not a waste dump

2013-03-17 Thread DaB.
Hello,
At Sunday 17 March 2013 21:14:48 DaB. wrote:
 Hello all,
  over 9000 small files at the moment 

just to be fair: Platonides discovered that over 8800 of them were created by 
a munin-script that was written by me. I'm sorry.

 
 Sincerely,
 DaB.

Sincerely,
DaB.

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