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Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

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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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what is flooding /var/tmp? "sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> - 2021-11-25 04:40 +0100
  Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-25 05:00 +0100
    Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? "sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> - 2021-11-25 10:00 +0100
      Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? "sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> - 2021-11-26 01:40 +0100
  Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-11-25 05:10 +0100
  Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? "sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> - 2021-11-25 20:40 +0100
  Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? Marc Auslander <marcausl@gmail.com> - 2021-11-25 22:50 +0100
    Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-11-25 23:10 +0100

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