8.2.2p5 questions

[G. Roderick Singleton]

Joseph S D Yao wrote:

> Not always.  Most of mine aren't.  "Out of space" is one possibility.
> Have you looked at the permissions in /tmp (ls -ld /tmp)?  They should
> be 1777 (shows as "drwxrwxrwxt").  Have you looked at how much disk
> space is available (df -k /tmp)?
> 
> --
> Joe Yao                         jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
> COSPO/OSIS Computer Support                                     
> 

You have a strange Solaris 2.x setup. Out of the box Solaris uses
free memory as swap and in turn makes /tmp a tmpfs filesystem
using what it scavanged from freemem.  For example, /etc/vfstab
has the following line:

swap	-	/tmp	tmpfs	-	yes	-

Now if you have changed any of these on your systems, good but the
user doesn't have your depth of knowledge and thus could easily be
misled.  

 

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