/tmp: filesystem full

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:55:23 -0600 Cesar Amaya 
<csar at 123.com.sv> wrote:
>
> But when I run a df -hi it says 0% of capacity is used on /tmp filesystem.
>
> napstats# df -hi
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused    ifree %iused
> Mounted on
> /dev/ad4s1a    989M     76M    834M     8%    1709   139601    1%   /
> devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%       0        0  100%   /dev
> /dev/ad4s1e     48G    229M     44G     1%   10600  6560406    0%   /home
> /dev/ad4s1d    989M     24K    910M     0%      15   141295    0%   /tmp
> /dev/ad8s1d    226G     85G    122G    41%  213086 30357408    1%   /usr
> /dev/ad4s1f    171G    8.4G    149G     5%   16560 23205710    0%   /var
>
> from messagess I guess it has something to do with Sendmail. Sometimes I
> run /top /and sendmail is consuming the  most of the processor time.
> napstats# uname -a
> FreeBSD napstats.americatelsal.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #2:
> Thu Mar 30 18:13:14 CST 2006
> root at napstats.americatelsal.com:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/NAPSTATS  amd64
>
> I really want to find out what the problem is.
> Please can anyone give me some light here?
>
What does # du -h /tmp  and # fstat | grep "/tmp" tell you?

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Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/