doelz@urz.unibas.ch (06/05/90)
In article <1990Jun5.034812.762@urz.unibas.ch>, kaul@arnor.watson.ibm.com (Anil Kaul) writes: > " no space on dev 406." A core dump filled your file system. Create a soft link from your working directory to the /tmp partition if there is enough space. If there is none, create a file named core and give no permission to write to this file to noone. Additionally, because you need to do this in *any* directory you intend to dump core but you don't want to have it there, have a look into /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root ans see whether the gargabe collection is commented out there. Now, *copy the file 'root' into 'root.sav' as a backup.* Then, remove the words -atime , -mtime and their arguments. If you are doing lots of core dumps, you could specify a shorter interval for removing cres, e.g. replace the 0 5 * * * by 0 5,10,15,20 * * * which will start the daemon at 5 am, 10 am, 3 pm and 8 pm. If you are neurotic, do 0 * * * * end every hour all cores will be removed. Note that this approach will slow down performance because the 'find' will take some I/O resources. - Reinhard