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SPSS temp directory space issue
I am trying to import a table data into SPSS Statistics Server, but due to space constraints in the temp directory location I am not able to facilitate the data import.
I need to either increase the ...
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Single process accessible temporary file
I want to create a file that is only accessible to the process that created it (and potentially its children), and that disappears when the process exits, ideally never persisting the file to disk. As ...
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how to automatically cleanup failed PHP uploads in /tmp?
How can I automatically cleanup failed uploads?
PHP is storing them in /tmp and all file names look like phpAbCDeF (basically php followed by 6 characters).
I know that I can use the command:
find ...
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how to delete temp and log files with terminal on vps?
I'm kinda pretty new to this but anyone know how to delete any temp and log files or these kind of files on vps with terminal? I'm runnin debian on the vps. I'm troubled since I can't locate those ...
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What are common rights for /tmp ? I unintentionnally set it all public recursively
I have abused sudo.
I have created a really really short life temporary directory that I wanted to share between some users for a few hours... and I named this directory /some/path/tmp
Unfortunately ...
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Overflow /tmp mounted when there is free space on /
I recently faced an "overflow" issue on /tmp. I don't have a separate /tmp partition, and there is 17% free in / – then why did I get an overflow tmp filesystem?
# /etc/fstab: static file ...
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When to mount /tmp (and other temporary directories)
When is the right time to mount /tmp (on Debian)? For /home I would not feel bad just to echo "/dev/foo /home type defaults 0 0" >>/etc/fstab - but can I be sure that /tmp is not used by any ...
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Where does the -i option in sed store the lines matching a regex?
I am trying to release space in my server's hd so I'm matching old dates in a log file with sed and it is decreasing but my root partition is now using 98% percent of it's space instead of 91% it was ...
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What is the difference between /tmp and /var/tmp?
On most FHS systems, there is a /tmp folder as well as a /var/tmp folder. What is the functional difference between the two?
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Writing to /tmp is failing - returning error 22
I'm getting this weird behaviour where writing to /tmp is failing.
Even try touch /tmp/foo as root fails with OS error code 22: Invalid argument.
The permissions are set to 1777/drwxrwxrwt.
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Can LVM snapshots be writable? (and used for temporary experiments)
It seems that usually it is talked about snapshots as read-only. (In a scenario where one creates a snapshot, then does some experiments with the main volume, and then restores the old state by ...
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Paritioning Scheme: Arch Linux server & laptop
What would be a good partitioning scheme for an Arch Linux installation, on a server and on a laptop?
My current basic scheme:
/ [root] ext4
/home ext4
swap
I know ...
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Is it safe to rm -rf /tmp/*?
This is something I used to do a lot on Windows, but after my recent fiasco I want to make sure. Is it safe to do
sudo rm -rf /tmp/*
?
