On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 07:02:53PM +0100, DaB. wrote:
Hello all,
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.
As a hint, apart from cleaning your tmp-files at the end of a script you can also do:
trap 'rm -f $TEMPFILE; exit' 1 2 3 15
which will be executed if the script gets a kill -1 -2 -3 or -15, so also if you or an admin needs to kill your script, the files will be deleted anyway.
Regards,
Andre Koopal