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