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When does /tmp get cleared?

I'm taking to putting various files in /tmp, and I wondered about the rules on deleting them? I'm imagining it's different for different distributions, and I'm particularly interested in Ubuntu and Fedora desktop versions. But a nice general way of…
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How useful is mounting /tmp noexec?

Many people (including the Securing Debian Manual) recommend mounting /tmp with the noexec,nodev,nosuid set of options. This is generally presented as one element of a 'defense-in-depth' strategy, by preventing the escalation of an attack that lets…
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php script can't access /tmp folder

I have no open_basedir, php can access /etc /usr /proc /home etc… but not /tmp. tmpfs is mount on /tmp (/tmp type tmpfs (rw)) That's also the reason I want to use the /tmp folder. My files are owned by http (user for nginx and php) and readable by…
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How to change default /tmp to /home/user/tmp

Is there an environment variable to set the temporary directory on debian based systems? I have a java applet that uses that environement variable and it's getting confused when launching two instances of the same applet.
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/tmp used 100% where is files?

On Centos 6.3 server I noticed that /tmp has no longer free space to store files. [root@]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg0-lv_root 99G 11G 84G 12% / tmpfs 16G…
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Using tmpfs + a very large swap partition for /tmp instead of a regular filesystem?

I have Linux server and I have a spare 500GB disk partition. I wanted to format it and use it for /tmp. The server occasionally runs some large data processing tasks so it can happen that /tmp will hold GBs of temporary data. Then I got an idea that…
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Error: No space left on device when starting/stopping services only

I know there are multiple questions like this already, but none of their answers applies to my problem. So I tried to upgrade from Debian 7.7 to Debian 8.1. Every works fine, but certain operations reports Error: No space left on device. df…
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No space left on device error, but df reports as more space available

My PHP sessions on my Debian webserver using Apache2 with mod_php seem to be failing randomly, saying that there’s no space to write them: sudo tail -60 /var/log/apache2/error.log [Fri Jan 30 15:55:35 2015] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP…
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Boot stuck at "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories"

I think something generated millions of files or folders in my /tmp on Ubuntu 18.04, as I'm unable to run ls /tmp or even rm -rf /tmp/*. So I tried rebooting, but now my machine's stuck at the step: A start job is running for Create Volatile Files…
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Resize debian /tmp partition

My /tmp partition keeps running out of space on a very large SQL query. How can I make the /tmp partition bigger? Thanks Tom EDIT: Here are the outputs from the requested commands blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="e8604436-53ea-4a05-9459-6c498cf19a1a"…
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Accidentally deleted /tmp/systemd-private-015eb2a30-apache2.service-9h6i

I accidentally deleted systemd-private-015eb2e9f67b4eef862c68e99fe0ba30-apache2.service-9h6i08 from my /tmp folder: sudo rm -R /tmp/systemd-private-015eb2e9f67b4eef862c68e99fe0ba30-apache2.service-9h6i08 and didn't mean for it not to disappear…
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Are directories with mode `drwxrwxrwt` safe in /tmp on a *nix system?

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2015 .font-unix drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2015 .ICE-unix -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 20 2015 ipt.err -rw------- 1 root root 90 Aug 20 2015 ipt.out drwxr-xr-x …
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sudo does not preserve TMPDIR

The sudo manpage tells me, that I can preserve the environment by passing the -E option, which does not work in the case of $TMPDIR: > env | grep TMPDIR TMPDIR=/localdata/tmp > sudo env | grep TMPDIR [no output] > sudo -E env | grep TMPDIR [no…
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How exactly to use systemd private temporary directory feature?

Systemd has a nice feature that is private temporary directory (/tmp). But it is not clear from the dense manual what are the correct ways to use it and implementation gotchas (get the feeling the manual is more a spec for devs and…
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git reports "No space left on device", but df -h says there is is 2.5G available

I have an EC2 node running Ubuntu 14.04. On a deploy this morning, I received the following error message from git fetch: error: unable to create temporary file: No space left on device I logged into the server and df -h indicates I have plenty of…
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