topic Re: Saturation of /var/tmp directory in Operating System - HP-UX

Saturation of /var/tmp directory

a8965 — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:53:45 GMT

After checking contents of "/" file system on rp5470 server in HPUX 11.00, I noted the size of rc.log file : more than 25 Mb

I ckecked inside this log file and found an amazing list of files in the /var/tmp directory : around 323 000 files !!!

Most of them (99%) are character special files, nammed "rscsiDAAxx" and with a size of 203.

I don't know what these files are for. Can they be deleted ??

Re: Saturation of /var/tmp directory

James A. Donovan — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:59:02 GMT

You need to apply some patches...

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=22338

It should be safe to remove any/all of those files.

Re: Saturation of /var/tmp directory

MarkSyder — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 05:49:40 GMT

/var/tmp is a temporary directory (hence "tmp"). If I need to clear space I usually clear anything over a week old from all such directories:

cd /var/tmp
find . -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: Saturation of /var/tmp directory

T G Manikandan — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:03:46 GMT

/var/tmp stores all temporary files.
you can clean them

#find /var/tmp -type f -mtime +15 -exec rm {} \;
#find /var/tmp -type d -mtime +15 -exec rm -r {} \;

Thanks