Ubuntu – What are these `/tmp/_MEIxxx` directories

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I am seeing a bunch of directories with the same files in my /tmp directory. I'm wondering if what is generating those directories as there was cases when it generated to many that it filled up my disk space.

Running ls -l /tmp shows the following:

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Then the directory contents which shows the same files being repeated:

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Best Answer

I'm running a cron involving docker-compose each hour, and timestamps from those directories match. So docker-compose seems to be involved.

I was running docker-compose v1.24, and just upgraded to v1.25.4, wait and see ...

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