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Summary: Why is updatedb prefering /var/tmp over /tmp for
temporary files?
Project: findutils
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Tue 07/12/05 at 13:05
Category: updatedb
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Arthur Korn
Originator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open/Closed: Open
Release: None
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
This was originally reported by Arthur Korn in http://bugs.debian.org/317815
updatedb by default uses /var/tmp for temporary files.
| We had a problem today on one system where /var would be full every
| night. We figured out that /var/tmp/ was full with hundreds of megabytes
| of files with names like 'sortXb87kd'. Some inspection led me to |
assumption that those are buffer files from sort, which it places | in TMPDIR,
which is set to /var/tmp/ here:
Afaict from reading FHS /var/tmp should only be used instead of /tmp if the
temporary files must not be deleted on reboot. I fail to see how this applies
to updatedb.
thanks, cu andreas
PS: Sorry, I have not taken my savannah pasword with me.
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