[K12OSN] cpu spikes killing me...

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Fri Nov 5 01:48:25 UTC 2004


well after those last attempts.. I 'ls'd again...

5 min later... screen still scroll'n with files....
I am really at a loss here =)

mv /tmp /dev/null ?

mkdir tmp


=)

--Huck

Bill Bardon wrote:

>On Thursday, Nov 04 Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:
>  
>
>>I suggest going into single-user mode on your server, cd to your /tmp 
>>directory, and doing a rm -rf * on it.
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>>
>
>Just a small point here, but it's safer to type the command as:
>
>rm -rf /tmp/*
>
>otherwise it's too easy to THINK you've cd'd into /tmp, type the
>command, and discover your whole partition is going away because you
>actually typed it while in the / directory.  Call me over-cautious, but
>typing the specific path is better.
>
>
>  
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