Open SSH to your server, if SSH will not connect due to disk space full in tmp, reboot your server in cloud server manager then try again.
Once connected run the following command.
yum install tmpwatch -y
Once tmpwatch is installed run command.
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch -am 12 /tmp
This will delete all files over 12 hours old. Next, we will configure your server to do this automatically.
from SSH type: crontab -e
Go to the very bottom and paste.
0 4 * * * /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -am 12 /tmp
Then press Control+X (on PC) or Command+x (on Mac) you will get confirmation do you want to save. Type Y for yes, and press enter.
The Location for the crontab for root, /var/spool/cron so you can add the line by using CSE. You can remove the session file using the following command.
# cd /tmp # rm -rf sess_*
The filesystem “/var/tmp” mounted at “/var/tmp” reached “warn” status because you currently use 84.29% of its available blocks.
