topic Re: Exaaa13773 files in Operating System - HP-UX

Exaaa13773 files

Olga_1 — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:17:23 GMT

Hello,
I have a number of files like Exaaa13773 in /var. What are they for and can I delete them?
Thank you.

Re: Exaaa13773 files

Pete Randall — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:20:53 GMT

Hi Olga,

Offhand, I don't remember what they're for but I can tell you that I routinely remove them. I use a cron job with "find -name ??aaa* -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;"

Pete

Re: Exaaa13773 files

Olga_1 — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:22:49 GMT

Thanks Pete.

Re: Exaaa13773 files

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:23:59 GMT

Hi

I suppose it is in the /var/tmp directory. If so you can delete them.

Re: Exaaa13773 files

Sajid_1 — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:25:18 GMT

hello,

These files normally comes under /var/preserve. These are files that are preserver by 'vi' editor. If something heppen to a file while you edit it, it will store the file here. If you don't require those files, then delete it.

Re: Exaaa13773 files

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:26:17 GMT

Hi Olga:

The 'Ex*' files in /var/tmp/ are recovery files from aborted 'vi' sessions. They can be removed or recovered as you choose.

You might choose to periodically remove these and others:

# find /var/tmp -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Exaaa13773 files

Sajid_1 — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:27:34 GMT

hi again,

You can set a cron job that will run each sunday to remove these files:
# rm /var/preserve/Exaa*

I never had any of these files as useful. But check with your users before you set the cron job.

Re: Exaaa13773 files

Olga_1 — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:27:41 GMT

No, the files are in /var/preserve

Re: Exaaa13773 files

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:36:54 GMT

Hi (again) Olga:

Yes, sorry, '/var/preserve' is the repository for the 'Ex*' recovery files of 'vi', not '/var/tmp'.

/no_points_please for this correction/

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Exaaa13773 files

Olga_1 — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:48:18 GMT

James, Thank you for continuing help.