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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: /tmp: file system full
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Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 21:29:55 GMT
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In article <4g3bo9$kmi@news.mountain.net>, larry@eve.net@eve.net writes:
> I have been trying to trace this one down, but so far have been unsuccesful.
>
> Every .5 hour I receive the following message on the console:
>
> Feb 16 20:50:35 access kernel: uid 0 on /tmp: file system full
>
> I have changed MFS setting, bounced the box and added another 32mb RAM.
> However, no joy. Happens like clock work. I eventhought to check matching chron jobs.
> Nothing fits.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help with this annoyance.
Is this box on the Internet or standalone? If it's on the net, then my guess
would be that somebody is trying to send you an oversized mail message and
retrying every half hour. Look in /var/log/messages and possibly /var/log/
maillog for events that happen at the same time as the file system full mes-
sage.
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
+1 201 915 9381 (voice) +1 201 435-3662 (FAX)