This is more of sysadmin issue, not directly related to Webmin, however since we rely on Webmin with regard almost all aspects of automatization of Linux administration I thought to get *min devs stance on this.
One one of our Virtualmin servers with almost two year uptime things got comparatively slower. Investigating the issue we found the /tmp directory got really huge with lot's of files in it. So removing them all took really long time and I thought if *min system takes care of this issue at all. Searching online has given:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/20783/how-is-the-tmp-directory-cleaned-up, but that's for Ubuntu and the system in subject is CentOS
https://www.virtualmin.com/node/8472 but that one remains unresolved.
http://superuser.com/questions/499039/how-to-cleanup-tmp-folder-safely-o... has really interesting approach and I wonder if it possible to incorporate taking care of this issue within *.min?
Thanks.
Comments
Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 05/11/2016 - 00:08 Comment #1
Where these files under /tmp/.webmin , or just other places in /tmp ? The former should be automatically cleaned up by Webmin .. the latter is out of our control.
Submitted by yngens on Wed, 05/11/2016 - 17:49 Comment #2
It was the latter. Well then we will just use crontab to clean it regularly. Thanks.