Exaaa13773 files

[Olga_1]

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

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

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

[Olga_1]

Thanks Pete.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi

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

[Sajid_1]

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.

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Sajid_1]

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.

[Olga_1]

No, the files are in /var/preserve

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Olga_1]

James, Thank you for continuing help.