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Cron jobs/space issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Mon Dec 10 14:58:41 2001
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:52:51 -0500
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From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
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Jody,
Are cron jobs something you should do, or something we should be writing
and implementing?
Peter sent me some mail over the weekend because:
>*****************************************************
> Hostname: pillage
> Warning: The filesystem /var/mit is 100% full.
>
>*****************************************************
I found a couple of things, part of the submission process written by Dan
is putting what appears to be a "safety copy" of incoming print files into
/var/mit/ipmdump/"queue name" area. This had filled. There is a cron job
Rocklyn thinks is currently running to cleanup these directories, but is
cleaning up the files when they are more than 7 days old. Can this cron
job be altered to more often, like hourly?
As long as I was poking in the directories I also found some core files,
Rocklyn has one in his home directory, if you have any interest in looking
at it, he will hang onto it, it is dated Nov. 15, if not he can delete it.
Are the /var/spool/* and /var/mit/* on different filesystems? If so what
size are they?
On a semi related note, it appears that Dan's script to do the web
submissions is writing the incoming files "temporarily" to /tmp, which is
also filling. Rocklyn is trying to get hold of Dan to request that he
alter the script to clean up after itself, again can we request a cron job
to clean out the *.prn files until Dan gets the script updated?
I have been doing some cleanup by hand and can/will continue to do so, but
it would be nice to have it automated. As Part of my process of cleaning
up I am comparing the file sizes/times in the
/var/mit/ipmdump/central-letter and /var/pd/pillage, unfortunately the
filenames are not the same, but the sizes and times are.
Thanks
Lynne
Lynne E. Durland
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