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Am installing Python-3.13.3 on an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system. make reported ../../../src/Python/python-3.13.3/Parser/parser.c:42298:1: fatal error: error writing to /tmp/ccC4u7pE.s: No space left ...
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I would like to store some files in a temp directory that will be automatically deleted within one day and not require a reboot. The files will be about 6 Gigabytes. When should I use /tmp? Use /...
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time touch /tmp/test.dat real 0m1.03s user 0m0.00s sys 0m1.02s A full second of sys-mode time to create a file in /tmp. That can become unbearable for ksh scripts that open dozens of files ...
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Is there any documentation for the default permissions of the /tmp folder on *nix, in particular Linux? (Or perhaps /tmp doesn't have specified default permissions?) Background: I'm trying to ensure ...
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I have a RHEL 8 workstation that hosts an app whose GUI is accessible through https on an unprivileged port. When the app is started, it creates a few socket files in /tmp with random names and the ....
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How to overcome/force-fix the following problem: $ sudo /usr/sbin/tmpreaper 15d /tmp error: run time exceeded! This may be indicative of an attack to use tmpreaper to remove critical files; or the ...
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TLDR; If /tmp in mounted as tmpfs, in the presence of swap, is there any kind of priority when swapping ? Does tmpfs start to swap before applications ? FULL STORY I have a laptop with 32G of RAM (...
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Users: root userA - the normal owner of the file userB - the user that wants to write to the file The file: Let's say I have a basic text file: /tmp/file Ownership: chown userA:groupA /tmp/file ...
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I use Ubuntu 20.04, on a machine that has a limited system drive. I came across a build script that checks for available size in /tmp, and it refuses to run if it doesn't see 12 GB available, which I ...
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From my knowledge of the `/tmp` directory, it is cleared on reboot. I'm unsure what happens to the living host whenever the /tmp folder is flooded (put to the max storage capacity) - does Linux have ...
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After searching the tmpfiles.d, its seems like there is a limited number of option to erase the files/directories. I want to totally erase the temporary directories with a shred like command, is there ...
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The file and folder are owned by root but I did sudo chmod ugo+rw on both, which I confirmed with ls -l. Still, I cannot remove the file as normal user. ❯ ls -ld /tmp /tmp/perm drwxrwxrwt 46 root root ...
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This is a very stupid question but how can we set up /var/tmp? Is there a special way to do it or will just creating the directory suffice?
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To have /tmp on tmpfs, I know I can use an entry in /etc/fstab, but I do not understand the role of /etc/default/tmpfs mentioned sometimes, and in what case I need to create or modify it. Recently, I ...
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I have an application that has a process on the /tmp folder, and the process creates another file or folder. If the original process gets ended by the application, will all the files created by it get ...
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In a multiseat desktop system with the /tmp directory polyinstantiated, the /tmp/.X11-unix/ directory and Xn instances are still created under root's /tmp not a user's. ssh -Ying into or out of the ...
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I am investigating the behavior of a binary on Oracle Linux 9 (XFS filesystem). This binary, when called by a process, creates a directory under /tmp and copies some files to it. This directory gets a ...
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I have a simple script that creates a zram device and formats it to ext4 and finally, it mounts zram on /tmp. #!/bin/bash # create zram with size 1.5G # $zram_dev is created device path (eg. /dev/...
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My app is keeping files in /var/spool/myapp and that works fine. If my app crashes, then it might leave files in that directory. Over time, this can add up to a lot of files, so I wondered if the /...
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I am using MX-21 and my /tmp directory is getting purged on every reboot. I would like to keep my /tmp for a week, so after some searching the web I modified the /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf file and ...
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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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/var/tmp is not defined in POSIX, but is defined in FHS: 5.15. /var/tmp : Temporary files preserved between system reboots 5.15.1. Purpose The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that ...
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I've got a question regarding supervisord. After running echo_supervisord_conf, I noticed that the directory it runs in is configured as /tmp by default. Why is this the case? Is it because the /tmp ...
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In Unix/POSIX/Linux systems it's possible to set the temporary directory via the TMPDIR variable. Wikipedia references a specification by the Open Group mentioning this. What this doesn't answer for ...
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/tmp folder has all permission: drwxrwxrwt 28 root root 20480 Jan 24 03:14 /tmp File /tmp/test.txt already exists, with permission 666, owned by user test1. -rw-rw-rw- 1 test1 test1 0 Jan 24 02:34 /...
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I've already read up on the differences between /tmp and /var/tmp, so note that this is not what this question is about. When I create a file in /tmp, it shows up in /var/tmp; however, neither ...
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Once /tmp ideally should be reserved for the system, where can a user create temporary files safely?
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Hey im stuck on a assignment and i dont know how to solve it really because iam quite new with working in linux. I have to place a directory in a tar-ball and zip it using gzip. At the moment this is ...
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Today I'm trying to save some valuable space on my system disk and I might have a real newbie question: Can I safely detete the contents of /var/tmp (flatpak items)? $ sudo du -sh /var/tmp 1.5G /...
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I'm new at Linux and I will get use of your help guys on this.. I want to increase the size of /tmp directory without affecting RAM or anything else on Red Hat 8.2 .. any suggestions to do that? ...
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My error: ln "99700.fa821246f01ef7f3d86a503e33de5753b50640d69de790fd3db5a5dc31ffa45d1dc64a93f950379ee432aa27cbb0593e6e50ddbb6f8a7e279afaf90cec961233.png" /home/anon/foo.png # ^ ...
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Nvidia has screwed me and kept every single old version of CUDA since cuda 10 including every minor version inside of root totaling up to nearly 30 gigabytes of my 50 gigabyte root partition, and upon ...
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I've made the mistake of mounting the /tmp directory as a btrfs subvolume. The problem is that systemd-tmpfiles won't clean it. How can I delete the /tmp subvolume and fix this? I'm new to filesystems,...
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I have a virtual machine (CentOS) that was pre-configured (I didn't partition them) and I have some of my work on it. When I got access to the VM, it had very less storage space, and it isn't ...
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I tried running the script as instructed in https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/: $ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/rootless | sh But the script crashed in the following line: curl -L -...
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Previously mktemp used to create files in /tmp. Today I noticed that mktemp is creating file in $PWD rather than in /tmp? Did I change something inadvertently? Any suggestions to fix this? Note: I ...
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Hoping against hope here, but is there some in-built logging mechanism through which I can find out which files were deleted from /tmp upon reboot? I could obviously tweak the shutdown scripts, but ...
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Background: On my system /tmp is a regular part of the / partition and I use it for a few important features of the system. Current systemd Approach: On new systems systemd has started to take over ...
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I'd like to create a temporary file that will be read by multiple scripts after its creation, but I don't have an easy way of monitoring when the last script finishes reading this temporary file to ...
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As root run: cd /tmp seq 10 > foo chmod 666 foo seq 10 >> foo chown daemon foo seq 10 >> foo This gives: -bash: foo: Permission denied It is clear that it is due to /tmp's special ...
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Configuring a systemd service with PrivateTmp=true leads to the fact that the service uses a private tmp directory. Instead of /tmp such a service will use a directory like that: /tmp/systemd-private-...
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Origin I need to implement some features to my GDB helper scripts but I have to stick with an older version of GDB (5.3, in this case). Since older versions lack so many features, I need to workaround ...
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Is there any way to configure systemd so that it creates its private tmp directories (for unit files with PrivateTmp=true) in subdirectories under /tmp and /var/tmp instead of the top-level of those ...
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From my own experience, i noticed that most people use /tmp/ for temp files or to save on disk write, but i don't often see anyone recommending or even using /dev/shm instead. Why is that?
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Say I'm running some lengthy process, consisting of two steps: a generates a big intermediate file, say /tmp/aoutput, then b reads that file and does something further with it. Now the system crashed ...
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A "middle" dump directory (path Y) to which one can to cut/copy-paste a few files from path X and then later cut/copy-paste these into path Z could be handy if someone is say upgrading a ...
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In a Python program, I use np.memmaps, which make use of the /tmp directory to handle massive arrays. I make sure to clear /tmpregularly by running rm -rf /tmp/* every time I use this code. However ...
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I wish to create a directory in $TMP_DIR or /tmp/ which persists forever (i.e. is never deleted) but it is maintained by OS, i.e. the content of which can be deleted if they have not been opened/used ...
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I run ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell laptop; I just love the fact that you can set the workspace to a grid format in 16.04, unlike say 18.04 where it looks like a line, but not sure if 20 does have the grid ...
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My system regularly moves /tmp to /snapshot. (background) Now I want to create a cronjob that checks every minute if the directory was renamed by the system, and renames it back. $ sudo crontab -l # .....
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