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Date:      Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:52:52 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problem with my server
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20061228145200.02471ae8@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <01c101c72abf$b9045ee0$d5b9bfcf@lisac>
References:  <01c101c72abf$b9045ee0$d5b9bfcf@lisac>

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Check for symlinks into tmp such as /var/tmp -> /tmp

Often logfiles will fill /tmp

         -Derek


At 02:35 PM 12/28/2006, Lisa Casey wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm running freeradius on FreeBSD 5.3 I noticed a problem in my radius 
>logs a little while ago. In my messages log I saw the following:
>
>Dec 28 03:11:42 radius kernel: pid 53251 (cp), uid 0 inumber 8 on /tmp: 
>filesystem full
>Dec 28 03:11:55 radius kernel: pid 52711 (perl), uid 0 inumber 7 on /tmp: 
>filesystem full
>
>I rebooted the system and it seems to be OK now. I am comcerned though 
>because I don't really know what might cause /tmp to fill up and what I 
>might do to prevent that. I don't know what df showed before the reboot, 
>but the /tmp file system is fine now:
>
>Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/ad0s1a    253678  124276   109108    53%    /
>devfs               1       1        0   100%    /dev
>/dev/ad0s1e    253678      22   233362     0%    /tmp
>/dev/ad0s1f  36493196 2114040 31459702     6%    /usr
>/dev/ad0s1d    396526   47528   317276    13%    /var
>devfs               1       1        0   100%    /var/named/dev
>
>I realise this might be a pretty vague question, but what might cause /tmp 
>to get full? This server is used for radius authentication, email for a 
>few (~ 50) users and it runs bind as a slave DNS server.
>
>Thanks for any input.
>
>Lisa Casey
>
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