topic Re: tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these? in Operating System - HP-UX

tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these?

Ben Prusinski — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:36:50 GMT

We have a lot of old tombstone configuration files under /var directory that are hogging up our disk space under /var. Would it be safe to delete the older tombstone files or do I need to keep all of them? Thanks

Ben Prusinski

Re: tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these?

John Poff — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:38:46 GMT

Hi,

If they are old and the problem that caused them is solved, you can delete them. You only need them if you are working with HP to debug a system crash.

JP

Re: tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these?

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:41:42 GMT

Yes although if you are still seeing system crashes then you are throwing away what could be valuable diagnostic data.

Re: tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these?

Michael Tully — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:46:23 GMT

If you are not having any current hardware problems then it would be safe to remove most of them. A reasonable guide would be that the last few are of the same size. If this is the case, you can remove all but say the last 3, so
keep ts99, ts98 and ts97.

Regards
Michael

Re: tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these?

Ben Prusinski — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 23:27:46 GMT

Thanks for your help. I looked at the files and they look like system configuration dump files. I'll keep the last few tombstones for backup and recovery purposes in case our server panics.

Regards,
Ben Prusinski
Network Analyst

Re: tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these?

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:37:39 GMT

I'm attaching a doc on crash dump analysis, since it seems you're getting those.

SEP

Re: tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these?

Michael Steele_2 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 02:54:44 GMT

No one's ever asked me for anything but ts99.

Re: tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these?

Sunil Sharma_1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:22:16 GMT

Hi,

It's a very good question because we were not sure when JP will ask some OLD files.
so my best advice is to take a backup of files and then delete them.
and atleast keep las one month file on system.

Regards

Sunil

Re: tombstone files under /var/tombstones- can I delete these?

Ben Prusinski — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:36:17 GMT

Thanks folks. This is the best forum for HP-UX I have ever found. Since I am pretty much the main HP-UX technician at work it really helps me a lot.

Regards,
Ben Prusinski
Network Admin CSUS