Somebody knows this kind of files

[Justo Exposito]

Hello,

I see this files in my boxes in the /var/tmp directory:
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x053000 Jan 13 16:29 rdskIDAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x052000 Jan 13 16:29 rdskGDAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x051400 Jan 13 16:29 rdskDDAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x051300 Jan 13 16:29 rdskADAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x050100 Jan 13 16:29 rdskWBAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x051200 Jan 13 16:29 rdskXCAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x051100 Jan 13 16:29 rdskUCAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x051000 Jan 13 16:29 rdskRCAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x050700 Jan 13 16:29 rdskOCAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x050600 Jan 13 16:29 rdskLCAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x050500 Jan 13 16:29 rdskICAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x050400 Jan 13 16:29 rdskFCAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x050300 Jan 13 16:29 rdskCCAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x050200 Jan 13 16:29 rdskZBAa26349
crw------- 1 root root 203 0x050000 Jan 13 16:29 rdskTBAa26349

There are a lot of this, I'm working with HP/Ux 11.00 and ServiceGuard 11.09.

Can I delete them?
Why appear this files?

Thanks in advance,

Justo.

[Vincent Fleming · Accepted solution]

They're character-special device files; if I remember correctly, it's ioscan that creates them.

I'm sure you can delete them; but before you listen to me on this, wait for further feedback from others here in the forum.

Good luck,

Vince

[Pete Randall]

They look like some sort of temporary device files. The fact that they're in /var/tmp would lead me to believe that you can delete them as long as they're not in use. You could check with lsof of use find with a -mtime of several days past.

Pete

[Pete Randall]

Sorry - meant "OR use find", not of.

Pete

[Justo Exposito]

Hi,

Many thanks Pete and Vincent.

Justo.

[Helen French]

The files under /var/tmp are usually data files and if they are no longer in user they can be removed. The best way to approach it is:
1) Use 'file' command to determine the type of file
2) Depend up on file output, look at the content with cat (for ascii text) or with strings (for data file).
3) You can now determine which application created these files, on which dates etc. You can now easily determine if those files are needed or removed.

I always do a backup before cleaning up the system.

[Stanimir]

Hi!
These file were created by hardware
scanning on our mashine, but dont remember how.

Seeing on the date of creating you could remember what is happened with your system /date is equal for all of them/ at 16:29.
I thing you can remove it without problems.
Regards

[John Poff]

Hi,

Here are a couple of posts with similar problems. One suggestion is that they are left behind by sam, another suggestion is that they are left by diagnostics.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x0d7f972194d6d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x958093e260b0d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html


I'd suggest running 'fuser' on them before removing them just to make sure some process doesn't still have them open. Of course, if something does have them open that should give you a big clue about what is causing them.

JP