not sure why but /tmp was full again and tmpwatch (executed from cron.daily) wasn't doing its job, so the files in that dir never became reduced (from 32000). And nothing was working (file view, diffs...)

So I've edited the cron.daily script and changed the line to:

/usr/sbin/tmpwatch -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix -x /tmp/.font-unix -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix -fm 72 /tmp

i.e. I've added the fm switches, to force deletion if root hasn't access + to use modify time, instead of access time. Also I've reduced it to 3 days (72) hours. Now there are only 5166 files.

FYI, Jordan, Martin...ciao

/tmp was full again.

Ciao

Tim Hunt notified me of this a couple of days ago and i cleaned /tmp also.
I couldnt find any information on how these folders are being managed, other than its something to do with cvs/viewvc
I wrote a small perl script and put it in crontab to clean the rcs* and tmp* folders that have a last access time of more than 24 hours.

Eloy - should my script stay or be removed?

runs at 12pm (moodle hq time) every day.

#!/usr/bin/perl

1. clean /tmp so viewvc doesnt fill it up

my @files = `/usr/bin/find /tmp/ -atime +1 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null |grep '/tmp/rcs
|/tmp/tmp'`;

foreach $file (@files) {
chomp($file);
if (($file ne "/tmp") && ($file ne "/tmp/")) { #print "$file\n"; system("/bin/rm -rf $file"); }
}