TMP files, many of them

[Fred Martin_1]

For some reason, in root's home, many TMP files are appearing:

-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 10 15:44 20667.TMP
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 10 15:46 21105.TMP
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 10 15:51 21465.TMP
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 10 15:52 21547.TMP
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 10 15:55 21905.TMP
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 10 15:56 22126.TMP
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 10 16:02 22872.TMP
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 10 16:11 23546.TMP
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Jul 10 16:19 24303.TMP

You can see by the times that it's a steady stream of them. Where would I begin, to find out what's creating these empty files?

I assume that the names are process ID's, they are in the range of other new processes on the system.

Fred

[John Poff]

Hi,

You can run an 'fuser *.TMP' and see if any processes have those files open. Then you can do an 'ps -fp ' on one and see what the process is.

JP

[Fred Martin_1]

Unfortunately, no. Also tried hitting just the last few hoping they're still active but they're all coming up blank.

[John Poff]

Ok, then I'd work from the other end. See when they started 'ls -lrt *.TMP | head', and then look for a process that might be running since then. I'd also suggest a good look through the process table to see what is running.

JP

[Fred Martin_1]

Mmm. Just noticed that the dates/times roughly follow store hours ... could still be lots of things but that confines it, for the most part, to the primary database or users. Not likely to be some other system related thing. I'll be watching it.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Fred:

The 'lsof' utility might make it easier. You could let it automatically refresh and see much more in "one shot".

Regards!

...JRF...

[Fred Martin_1]

It occurs to me now that these are indeed database temp files, Progress, specifically. I have seen them before, though not as numerous and with data in them. They were easier to identify with data in them :)

I think that it's off topic for this forum then, but thanks.