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Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?



On 11/24/2021 10:40 PM, sp007@caiway.net wrote:
Hello,

My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named:

sort01ei1t
sort01Eq7u
sort01sLAs
...
sortzZZtvv


the files are approx. 13 Gb each.
In 24 hours > 6000 are written.

My big partition is filled by it until the system freezes.

The files are plain text files, containing sshfs paths:

/mnt/nas/sshfs/proc/self/task/413551/root/proc/self/task/413551/root/proc/self/task/413551/root/proc/self/task/413551/root/proc/
.........

nas and desktop are running debian 11 daily updated.

How can I find out which program is writing these files?

Thanks!

You might look at file creation time and look in /var/log/syslog to see what CRON job is running when they are created.


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