↳ In-reply-to » Hack of the day: running watch -n 60 rm -rf /tmp/yarn-avatar-* in a tmux because all of a sudden, without warning, yarnd started throwing hundreds of gigabytes of files with names like yarn-avatar-62582554 into /tmp, which filled up the entire disk and started crashing other services.

For example this one that got fixed this year:

commit 4304ec7ea3c5df95e0ed82bfa292c9330e342f61
Author: James Mills <james@mills.io>
Date:   Mon Jan 24 00:10:33 2022 +0000

    Fix bug in DownloadImage() leaking termporary files for external avatar downloads (#746)