/tmp: filesystem full

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:08:50PM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote:

> Robert Huff wrote:
> >Cesar Amaya writes:
> >
> >  
> >> napstats# fstat | grep "/tmp"
> >> www      httpd       1739   15 /tmp          4 -rw-------       0 rw
> >>    
> >
> >	Can you afford to shut down the web server (Apache ?)?
> >
> >
> >				Robert Huff
> >
> >  
> Nothing is shown if I shut down the web server. But I saw something 
> weird when I run # fstat | grep "/tmp", was something like this:
> 
> <someuser>	mail.local       1739   15 /tmp          4 -rw-------       
> 73917491734 rw

Looks like something, maybe your mail program has a large file open - 
maybe trying to receive a huge file.   Killing the process could get
that file closed and either it would be gone or would finally show
how much space it is holding.

////jerry

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