Questions tagged [tmp]
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How to delete non root-owned files from Unix /tmp folder
We have some Ubuntu v22 servers that get a lot of files dumped into the /tmp directory, in spite of our best code efforts to clean up after the processes are done. What we would like to do is run a ...
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Docker-Compose Error on CentOS 7: Shared Library Mapping Issue
I've encountered an issue with Docker on CentOS 7. Although I have successfully installed both Docker and Docker-Compose, when I run docker-compose --version, I receive the following error:
docker-...
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Why are tmp files in /var/tmp/systemd-private-* excluded from automatic deletion?
I'm running a CGI application on an Apache instance, and lately I've been noticing errors like the following, which appear to be causing some issues:
ERR012: Unable to create temporary file "/var/...
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Logrotate is not working in /tmp
I'm facing a strange problem with logrotate on my Debian 10 server.
All in one, logrotate (v3.20.1) is working and rotating fine... except for some files in /tmp that I want to "skrink" ...
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Delete files from /tmp/ CentOS6
I'm running Centos6 and inside mt /tmp/ folder I see these files
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 2016 fileinstall-1059639640221211034
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 30 2021 ...
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Wordpress error PCLZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4) when I'm trying to install, update a plugin, but the error is solved temporarily if I restart the server
Whenever I try to install or update a wordpress plugin, I get this error:
PCLZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4)
This is also happening if I edit a template from a layout manager or if I do anything that ...
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what's root cause of "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories"
Stuck at "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories" after reboot a server(Debian 9.5, 64bit), and solve by this "boot-stuck-at-a-start-job-is-running-for-create-...
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Why is Docker volume world-writable if set to /tmp?
For the context :
docker --version
Docker version 20.10.7, build 20.10.7-0ubuntu5~20.04.2
test 1 : volume is /myvolume
Here's my Dockerfile
FROM alpine:latest
USER 1000:1000
VOLUME /myvolume
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Windows Creating tmp Files When Rotating Images
Windows server 2016 Standard
Client PC's Windows 2010 Enterprise 2019
We have a shared folder that contains images (jpgs), we've noticed that when an image is opened in the default windows image ...
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Why even my root user cannot write in the /tmp directory?
I cannot write in the /tmp directory.
This as a non root user:
europasprak@vps-xxxxxxxx:~$ echo 'ok' > /tmp/dummy
-bash: /tmp/dummy: Operation not permitted
and
europasprak@vps-xxxxxxxx:~$ sudo ...
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PHP can't write to /tmp folder anymore after Apache update
Linux dist: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Server version: Apache/2.4.29
PHP Version: 7.4.20 with PHP-FPM
Recently this server did an automatic upgrade of Apache and ever since PHP can't write to /tmp breaking ...
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Trojan:PHP/Obfuse.AR!MSR Detection by Windows Defender [duplicate]
I have an AWS server running Windows 2016 Datacenter. From the past few days, Windows Defender has been reporting Trojan:PHP/Obfuse.AR!MSR pointing to random phpXXXX.tmp files inside C:\Windows\Temp ...
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How exactly to use systemd private temporary directory feature?
Systemd has a nice feature that is private temporary directory (/tmp). But it is not clear from the dense manual what are the correct ways to use it and implementation gotchas (get the feeling the ...
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Boot stuck at "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories"
I think something generated millions of files or folders in my /tmp on Ubuntu 18.04, as I'm unable to run ls /tmp or even rm -rf /tmp/*. So I tried rebooting, but now my machine's stuck at the step:
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How large should the mysql temp folder be when altering table information like auto increment?
If I have 500GB table size, how big should the temp folder be in order to alter table information? I will be configuring temp in my.cnf and, in this example, I have 64 GB physical ram.
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Linux Mint 19 through WDS PXE does not boot
I find myself stuck trying to make linux mint 19 available from my wds.
I can boot windows, ubuntu, centos, debian, kali linux AND linux mint 18 with minimal problems but linux mint 19 just won't boot....
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Accidentally deleted /tmp/systemd-private-015eb2a30-apache2.service-9h6i
I accidentally deleted systemd-private-015eb2e9f67b4eef862c68e99fe0ba30-apache2.service-9h6i08 from my /tmp folder:
sudo rm -R /tmp/systemd-private-015eb2e9f67b4eef862c68e99fe0ba30-apache2.service-...
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lsof shows tmp growing file marked as deleted
I have a cron that generated a lot (15GB) of PHP warnings and was writing them in a log file.
I killed the process and as a temporary measure I stopped redirecting stderr to stdout so I don't fill up ...
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tmpfiles.d -- difference between `x` and `X` options?
I'm configuring tmp cleanup on CentOS 7. The docs for tmpfiles are a little unclear to me when explaining the difference between the X and x options in tmp.conf. The difference according to the docs ...
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Unexplained massive rmagick temporarily file
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We recently ran into a situation whereby some of our server instances were suddenly running out of disc space, evidenced by below graph:
The reason for running out of disc space is a single /...
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Is /tmp ever cleared on my servers and VM that don't get
Random curiosity had me look up when exactly /tmp was cleared, to discover that most OS do it at shutdown or boot up. I had always thought it was more of a "whenever we need to reclaim space" logic.
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Cannot create symlink from /var/tmp to /tmp. Cannot delete /var/tmp - CentOS 7
I cannot delete /var/tmp as it says,
# rm -Rf /var/tmp
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/tmp’: Device or resource busy
Because of this, I cannot create a symbolic link from /var/tmp to /tmp.
How can I ...
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git reports "No space left on device", but df -h says there is is 2.5G available [duplicate]
I have an EC2 node running Ubuntu 14.04. On a deploy this morning, I received the following error message from git fetch:
error: unable to create temporary file: No space left on device
I logged ...
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Windows Server: any built-in application that cleans TEMP folder(s)
Using Windows Server 2012 R2:
My application creates many temp files in a service account's temp folder:
C:\Users\SVC_ACCT\AppData\Local\Temp\
I need to build a PowerShell script that cleans the ...
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How to prevent tmpfs /tmp causing machine to run out of memory?
I have a virtual server (Debian 8.5, OpenVZ) that seems to run out of memory* when tmpfs-based /tmp is about 60% full.
(* while the system reports 2GB of memory still free, processes start to behave ...
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Are directories with mode `drwxrwxrwt` safe in /tmp on a *nix system?
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2015 .font-unix
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2015 .ICE-unix
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 20 2015 ipt.err
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How to cleaning up /tmp
I have a CentOS web server with many clients on it. I see the /tmp reached DISKCRITICAL just after about two months since I made 8 GB (after expansion from 4 GB)! I want to know the reasons that make ...
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Unable to clear up tmp
I had a bunch of files in /tmp that I cleared up by doing $ rm -rf ./tmp/*. However, I'm still unable to 'clear' that information, even after a reset. Here is what I have now:
$ cd Av-bash: cannot ...
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Dumped a large amount of small files in /tmp/ and rebooted... server not coming back up
I stupidly created a reasonably deep tree (4 folders deep) with the leaf folders containing a large amount of smallish files (over 1 million files around 200kb to 1mb in size). In total the count ...
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Error: No space left on device when starting/stopping services only
I know there are multiple questions like this already, but none of their answers applies to my problem.
So I tried to upgrade from Debian 7.7 to Debian 8.1. Every works fine, but certain operations ...
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Var folder maxing out /dev/mapper/vg00-var
Over the past few years we have had multiple linux servers have the same problem time and time again, our /dev/mapper/vg00-var folder max out at 100%. which means all sites on the server die.
We have ...
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Debian 8 + PHP: /tmp/ Permission denied
I had a website running fine on Debian 7 + PHP 5.6, and recently decided to upgrade my Debian installation to Debian 8. Everything went fine, except for a small thing.
While running the same code, ...
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Why isnt this sudoer command run as root? [closed]
I want to give PHP access to a very specific script using a configuration under /etc/sudoers.d.
So I did the following:
visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/99-php
And entered this sudo rule:
www-data ALL = (...
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What is making /tmp/info-html*.tmp files and how do I stop it?
What is making /tmp/info-html*.tmp files and how do I stop it or configure it to clean these up and/or make these somewhere else?
For example,
# ll /tmp/info-html*
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 Oct 30 ...
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Is It safe to delete all files/directories from /tmp folder on ubuntu 14.04 rackspace server? [closed]
I am getting error unable to connect with mysql. when I googled I found It's because of size. It's showing /tmp 100% used. so can I completely remove all files from/tmp folder ?
#df -m /tmp
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PDFTK: unable to open file for output
I am making use of PDFTK to watermark PDF files using the following command:
pdftk /tmp/55180af7c8c88.pdf stamp /tmp/stamp55180af7c95b84.58412952.pdf output /tmp/55180af7c95c81.06110501.pdf
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No space left on device error, but df reports as more space available
My PHP sessions on my Debian webserver using Apache2 with mod_php seem to be failing randomly, saying that there’s no space to write them:
sudo tail -60 /var/log/apache2/error.log
[Fri Jan 30 15:55:...
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deletion of tmp directory content on RHEL
we have installed Web logic server 10.3.6 in RHEL 5.8.There also a "tmp" folder inside "domains/servers/tmp" folder..this is the path of tmp folder in my case.Now My query is "Is it Mandatory to ...
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PHP website grinds to halt for an hour, then runs fine....how to debug?
I have a PHP website which uses $_SESSION variables. It runs on Apache, Mysql and Ubuntu 14.04 on a very resourceful server (Amazon EC2 - M3.X-large)
For some unknown reason, the website virtually ...
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Can't create/write to file '/mnt/temp/something' (Errcode: 13)
I changed the tmp directory of the mysql configuration to a mounted disk and on service mysql restart I get following error:
Can't create/write to file '/mnt/temp/something' (Errcode: 13)
To my ...
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Suspicious Linux binary file in /tmp/ - Munin?
I have a CENTOS 6.6 x86_64 server running ConfigServer Firewall (installed by us) and Munin (installed by the datacentre).
CSF has recently (and for no apparent reason) started sending us warnings, ...
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How to backup your MySQL database when /tmp is read only?
I have an Ubuntu server 12.04 with a corrupted ext4 file system on my /tmp partition :
$ dmesg | tail
[25300713.878456] end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 2019854
[25300713.882430] Aborting ...
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php script can't access /tmp folder
I have no open_basedir, php can access /etc /usr /proc /home etc… but not /tmp.
tmpfs is mount on /tmp (/tmp type tmpfs (rw))
That's also the reason I want to use the /tmp folder.
My files are owned ...
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insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/updates/packages [closed]
I try to install vim-enhanced using #yum install vim-enhanced I got an error like this insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/updates/packages I found some answers to the this ...
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Re-ocurring issue with keys on temp tables
We run a large forum with lots of reads and writes, particularly to the posts and topics tables which are both innodb.
Last week I started doing 12 hourly backups with innobackupex because mysqldump ...
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removed files from /tmp/ directory - can't login anymore
I'm a system integrator(evidently noob), and today i've made my first scan with rkhunter, a tool that look into the system for check the presence of rootkits.
After that scan i -foolishly- decided to ...
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Temporary file security threat? [duplicate]
We use CentOS.
We've been hacked and trying to figure out why. Looking at the /tmp folder I'm wondering if these are security threats:
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 11665408 Apr 3 18:59 #...
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Increase TMP size Centos 6.5 whm/cpanel
I'd like to increase it from 2G to 10G
Using CENTOS 6.5 WHM 11.40.1 (build 11)
I have tried:
#vi /scripts/securetmp
and looked for a line like “my $tmpdsksize”
its not there.
But this is what is ...
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Mysql tmp file cause site exception error crash
Running Magento and every 3-15 days or so (fairly random) I get this error:
exception 'Zend_Db_Statement_Exception' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#...
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/var/tmp size increasing. MYD file eating memory
i don't know much about linux file's system. there is centos installed on my machine. suddenly my web stopped working. sql_2031_0.MYD file in /var/tmp/ getting large when something browses in website. ...
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