/tmp partition becomes 100% full due to multiple directories whose names start with 'sos', as 'sos_<XYZ>', why ?

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Issue

  • /tmp partition becomes 100% full due to multiple directories whose names start with 'sos', as 'sos_', why ?

  • These directories are being created automatically.

# ls -ld /tmp/sos*
drwx------ 12 root root 4096 Sep 10 09:50 sos_deoCTE
drwx------ 12 root root 4096 Sep  7 06:58 sos_osPA3H
drwx------ 10 root root 4096 Sep 10 15:36 sos_sCE9XC
drwx------ 12 root root 4096 Sep  4 15:25 sos_yXTILT

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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