Temp file takes up all free disk space

I noticed that my hard drive started losing disk space. There is a tmp file created in /var/tmp that eats up all the hard drive space until a message starts appearing saying no disk space available. The last two times the file was 945.tmp and 400.tmp. A reboot usually deletes the file but it seems that when the AD connection is lost too. Any ideas?

Donald Palmer wrote:
How big and how many are these files?
What is AD?
Active Directory?
How full is your hard drive?
You burn any movies lately?
Check his other nearly identical post in another forum

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