Thanks to all who responded. I got alot of good info.
The problem:
/tmp filling up all the time and causing file system full errors in
/var/adm/messages and kern.log
When you do a df -k /tmp, you never see /tmp full.
The cause:
A couple of users had huge mailboxes, one in particular was 124MB.
Everytime Eudora checked for new mail it copied the file into /tmp.
The file didn't show up using fuser but df -k showed /tmp being full.
After looking at everyone's mailbox size and watching the mail log to
find out when the culprits were checking mail, I would finally see /tmp
fill up. Funny thing though, the file never showed using a fuser/ls
-l/df -k script, just a apop process and a 5byte file owned by the
culprit.
The solution:
Get the users to trim down their mailboxes and don't have them leave all
mail on server. And to mount /tmp to a partition by itself with more
space.
Thanks again,
Dan
Received on Wed Mar 01 2000 - 17:07:20 NZDT