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Hello All,
We are having a archiving script which runs every monday.
When ever the script runs it creates crout* files in /tmp folder.
This file appends till /tmp become 100% full.
We are facing this problem now very frequently.
We caanot delete this files,we have to kill the script.
when we kill the script the crout* file automaticaally gets deleted and file system too become normal.

Can you guys please help me regarding this.
What i need to do ,so that the script sholud not generate this crout* files?

All the suggestions are invited.

Thanks in advance.

It sounds like you have three simple ways to fix your problem:Without knowing what your script looks like, what kind of system you're using, how much free space there is in /tmp, and how much space is needed to archive the files you're archiving, I don't see how we can provide much help.

The crout* files are created by cron, and deleted after execution.
They certainly collect output to be sent by mail.
You can supress the output by adding >/dev/null 2>&1 to the command in crontab.

Hello ,
Thanks for your replies.

Can you please tell,do i need to put >/dev/null 2>& in the main script or do i need to put >/dev/null 2>&1 in the cron tab entry.

Thanks in Advance

crontab entry.

Thankyou very much....