| Deleting files from /var/tmp [message #98048] |
Sat, 03 January 2004 00:04  |
Mike
Messages: 417
Registered: September 1998
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The user Applprod and appldev is creating .tmp files under the /var/tmp directory.I need a script which will clean up these files on a regular basis that is it must check and clean every 15 mts.My OS is sun solaris 8.
Rgds
Mike
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| Re: Deleting files from /var/tmp [message #98050 is a reply to message #98048] |
Sun, 04 January 2004 22:21  |
Frank Naude
Messages: 4581
Registered: April 1998
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Hi,
You can schedule a crontab script like this to delete files from your /var/tmp directory.
# Find files that were accessed more than 1 day ago...
find /var/tmp -type f -atime +1 | while read FILE
do
echo Delete file ${FILE}...
# rm -f $FILE
done
Best regards.
Frank
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| Re: Deleting files from /var/tmp [message #98060 is a reply to message #98050] |
Mon, 12 January 2004 22:23 |
Mike
Messages: 417
Registered: September 1998
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Hi,
Thanks a lot for the mail.I need to delete files *.tmp from /var/tmp dir.I will have to schedule this script every 15 mts.How do I add it to the crontab?
Since I'm new to unix I would appreciate if you can provide me with complete steps?
Rgds
Mike
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| Re: Deleting files from /var/tmp [message #98061 is a reply to message #98060] |
Mon, 12 January 2004 22:44 |
Werner
Messages: 11
Registered: November 1999
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Hi Mike,
you can schedule the script by open crontab by typing
crontab -e, if you have the privileges to do that and add a line like:
0,15,30,45 * * * 1-6 <path>/del_temp.sh 2>/dev/null 1>&2
1-6 means that it run only from monday til saturday, use a "*" if you want to run every day.
The extension 2>/dev/null 1>&2 means that every output
of that script is put to device null otherwise the output will generate a email which of corse will fill up your mailbox.
Save your entry like vi with :wq
Regards,
Werner
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| Re: Deleting files from /var/tmp [message #98113 is a reply to message #98060] |
Wed, 03 March 2004 07:10 |
siva
Messages: 58
Registered: August 1999
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Hi,
In our server the size of the /var file system is 2GB. Daily tmp files are getting created in /var/tmp folder. Daily night we are removing the tmp files. but some times the size of the tmp files are huge and fills up the /var/tmp area so rapidly causing application services to stop. I want to know from how the tmp files are getting created. we are running forms server, report server, oc4j and apache server in our system. Increasing the /var/tmp size is out of question. It will be nice if we can redirect the files to some other folder. For that what I needs to do. Please advice.
Thanks in advance
siva
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