1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, When I type mail command i get the following error : /tmp/Rx7678 : No such file or directory If I try to use the man, i also get an error related to /tmp. I looked at my other servers and found this /tmp file, looked inside it and found that it has some files related to... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, does anyone have a script that can check the contents of the /tmp directory and for example e-mail the directory content if anything other than session files are present? Maybe there are better ways to monitor suspicous /tmp and /var/tmp activity, if so I'm listening :) (1 Reply)

3. Solaris

Hi, Do you know if we can shrink the size of the Swap under Solaris 8 ? 8Gb is already allocated to /TMP but we would like to reduce to 1 GB. Thanks, Fabien. (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am encountring this problem from some time now... ksh creates temp files /tmp/sh$$.* . Sometimes if some of my shell script crashes or I kill it... these temp files remain in the /tmp directory. At some later time when some script gets the same PID it tries to create files in the... (5 Replies)

5. AIX

good morning The /tmp filesystem is full at 99 % I have do a "rm" but the size is the same. so i think that a process is always alive, but how can i do to know it ? (because I have deleted some file in /tmp) thank you (9 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I know that /tmp is used for memory or swap??? and that it should not be full ??? and that files under /tmp are automatically removed after a reboot??? Is this info true??? thx (16 Replies)

7. Solaris

So with solaris 10 are people not using the old /tmp as a regular UFS filesystem and making /tmp part of swap or tmpfs... what are peoples thoughts on this? (5 Replies)

8. AIX

The /tmp is 100% full, I found there are the following big files/directory: 1301500 syslog.out.58 166692 vac 158552 install.dir.2928686 158552 install.dir.2236636 110980 install.dir.2887698 /tmp/vac have some files like : .toc ... (3 Replies)

9. Solaris

Hi All, There's a /tmp. folder on my solaris 9. I can't cd on it bash-2.05# uname -a SunOS cads105ctce 5.9 Generic_122300-30 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890 bash-2.05# cd /tmp. bash: cd: /tmp.: No such file or directory bash-2.05# ls -la /tmp. /tmp.: No such file or directory ... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Does anyone know of a way to redirect the ksh default of processing data in /tmp to another file system or / something else? My ksh script is parsing large DB files and it keeps filling up /tmp on the root disk. I have a 1 Tb disk with most of its space. How do I re-direct the /tmp ksh... (6 Replies)