Strange file in /var/adm/crash

[Jonathan Caplette_1]

Hi guys,

I was doing some cleanup on a HP-UX 11i box, when I went to the /var/adm/crash directory and I saw a file named CDCLS.001 that occupy about 700 mo on my filesystem.

I did this with the result:

root@aeiprd01 /var/adm/crash # ll
total 1443804
-rw-r----- 1 root sys 739219456 Oct 20 2003 CDCLS.001
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Oct 15 2003 lost+found
root@aeiprd01 /var/adm/crash # file CDCLS.001
CDCLS.001: awk program text
root@aeiprd01 /var/adm/crash #

When I do a "more" or a "strings" on that file, I only receive ASCII code, there is nothing readable that I see...

Is anyone here have already see that?? I'm sure I can delete it, but I would like to ask if anyone had already seen this!?

Thanks
Jonathan

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Jonathan,

Never seen such a thing myself, but it sounds like an awk job crashed and dumped core back in October of 2003. I would say you're pretty safe to delete it.


Pete

[melvyn burnard]

This is certainly not the normal type of file you would find in this directory. As it has nothing to do with any crash dumps, and has such an old date, I believe you can safely remove it.

[Trond Haugen]

My experience is that someone found a filesystem with plenty of space to "temporarily" put their file on.
:-}

Regards,
Trond

[Jonathan Caplette_1]

Thanks for the advise :) The file have been deleted...

[Christian Braukmueller]

Hi Jonathan,

it sounds like a puzzle to me, and i guess i have an idea what's going on on your system.

Is it possible that you are running
or at least used this server in the past for a pretty large productive SAP-R/3-System named "AEI"?

It further looks like there was a system-migration or a system-copy running in October 2003.

The file CDCLS.001 sounds familiar to me.
"CDCLS" is a large table within the database of an SAP-System.
In case of changing the plattform (HP-UX<->Windows) or changing the database (e.g. Oracle<->SAP-DB) you have to do a migration of the system.
Exporting all tables with SAP-Tools to a plattfom-independent format is the first task to be done.

To fasten the process. big tables can be exported ´by a single process creating a file e.g. CDCLS.xxx . Depending on the max-file-size and the size of the table you will get CDCLS.001 and maybe CDCLS.002, .003, ...

Uuups, getting to much into detail.

Back to your question:
The file is a compressed export of a database-table and except the import-tool "R3load" no other Standard-Unix-tool might find the content useful.

Guess someone missed to clean up the system after the migration.
Deleting the file was a good decision.

Best regards
Christian