/tmp getting full form portmanager

[Garrett Cooper]

Noah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I dont think this is an adequate solution.
> /tmp is filling up during the portmanager run.  in other words - while I 
> am running /tmp fills up.  so it needs to be erased periodically while 
> portmanager is running or else no other packages can be downloaded
> 
> are there other solutions?
> 
> what about a sym link to /var/tmp - will that break anything?
> 
> Are you sure that "clear_tmp_enabled"  doesnt just force clearing tmp 
> upon reboot?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Noah
> 
> 
> 
> Gerard Seibert wrote:
>> On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 06:43:15 (PM) Noah wrote:
>>
>>
>>  
>>> /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build 
>>> details during its run.
>>>
>>> what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates?
>>>     
>>
>> Erase them. Besides how much trouble can they be causing?
>>
>> Honestly, portmanager only uses those files when it runs. Each time it
>> is restarted, except with the '--resume' flag, it erases them and
>> creates new one.
>>
>> By the way, do you have:
>>
>>     clear_tmp_enabled="YES"
>>
>> in your /etc/rc.conf file? If not, you might want to add it if you feel
>> that you /tmp directory is getting clogged with garbage. I believe there
>> is a setting in periodic daily to clean out tmp files only.
>>

 From rc.conf(5):

      clear_tmp_enable
                  (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup.

Why not setup a parallel (background) task with a wrapper script to 
delete some files when upgrading ports? Either that or find a (more) 
free partition and symlink /var/tmp to it.

-Garrett