Re: [gentoo-user] cleanup / pkg error

2005-01-19 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler wrote: Boyd~ Thanks for the response. I did clean out /var/tmp, and the emerge still fails. I posted a separate email to the list with the errors... If you can think of something, I'd appreciate your feedback. How much space do you actually have free on / (if /var/tmp is a folder und

RE: [gentoo-user] cleanup / pkg error

2005-01-19 Thread John Dangler
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cleanup / pkg error On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:30 am, "John Dangler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked around for this, and, in my search, > found the following command, the co

Re: [gentoo-user] cleanup / pkg error

2005-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:15:54 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Unless you use /var/tmp or /tmp for some sort of long time storage, this > should be fine. It simply deletes all files in those directories that > haven't been modified in 3 days or more. Or you can simply rm -fr /var/tmp/porta

Re: [gentoo-user] cleanup / pkg error

2005-01-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:30 am, "John Dangler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked around for this, and, in my search, > found the following command, the context of which said that it could be > run from cron. I'm just wondering if it's safe to 'clear out' /var/tmp > files (and hoping thi

[gentoo-user] cleanup / pkg error

2005-01-19 Thread John Dangler
during the compile of openoffice, I got an error telling me that /var/tmp was out of space. I looked around for this, and, in my search, found the following command, the context of which said that it could be run from cron. I'm just wondering if it's safe to 'clear out' /var/tmp files (and hoping