/tmp/AAAa12345 files

[Jacques Carriere]

Could anybody tell me what creates these anoying /tmp/AAAAa... AAAAb... AAAAc... files owned by root:sys.

[Kent Ostby]

These are temp files created by vi and elm (calling vi).

They are generally suppossed to be cleaned up on reboot.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

check this doc

Title: aaaa*, baaa*, caaa SAM appears to be leaving behind in /var/tmp
Document ID: 8606264955

US
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000077094410

Europe
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000077094410

[Jacques Carriere]

The files are in /tmp not /var/tmp. Also, they are of capital letters such as /tmp/AAAAa12345

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Is there a pattern in the files (time and date) ? Could be you have a cronjob creating these files.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jacques:

The contents of the files will disclose their origin. They are temporary files whose name is built via 'tmpnam(3s)'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jacques Carriere]

These files are all zero "0" length. The correct format is as follow /tmp/AAAa29941.

[Peter Godron]

Jacques,
check whether a process is running with the id that follows AAAA.
Some coders try to create a 'unique' temporary file by using the process-id.

[Jacques Carriere]

looks like the files are being created by the OVO agent.

[Jacques Carriere]

I stopped the OVO agent for about 5-10 minutes and no tmp files were created. If the OVO agent is responsible for the creation of these files, why are they not deleted by the agent?

[Jacques Carriere]

This is what I got from HP:
This is a known issue (depending on version) outlined in the following document:

http://www.managementsoftware.hp.com/ecare/getsupportdoc?docid=8606344630 title: OSSPI 2.5 opcfwtmp does not clean up /tmp/AAA * work files

This should be resolved by installing and deploying the latest agent patches for your agent platforms.

These are listed on the following web page:

HP-UX MS: http://openview.hp.com/sso/ecare/getsupportdoc?docid=OVO-HPUX11X-PATCHES

Solaris MS: http://openview.hp.com/sso/ecare/getsupportdoc?docid=OVO-SOLARIS-PATCHES

[Jacques Carriere]

thanks to all.