Unneccessary files in /tmp (11.22)

[Arunvijai.S]

Hi All,

I am getting lots of unwanted files in my /tmp folder(11.22). These files are in the name of

from_ogld_2359.1
from_ogld_2361.1
from_ogld_2363.1
..........................
..........................

Rate of growth is around 2 files/sec. It is extremely annoying and not able to get any results thro' web.
My Platform details are given below,

Server : rx2600
OS : HPUX 11.22

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Arun

[T G Manikandan]

Get lsof from

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.70/

and check the source process for those files.

[Printaporn_1]

Hi Arun,

Does it come from application , what is owner of those files ?

[Arunvijai.S]

Hi,

It is a X Server process that creates the Files. I am not sure which patch will solve my problem ??

Arun

[Steven E. Protter]

Don't get frustated and decide /tmp can be wiped out.

We do run a program nightly that wipes out files that have not been updated in 7 days.

But one of our databases keeps its lock files on /tmp and if you wipe those out or /tmp gets to full a pile of database users are very bounced.

SEP

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

It looks like the numbers before the dot are a process number. If so, it might be easy to find the process that creates these files...

ls -tr /tmp/from_ogld* | tail -5 |sed 's|from_ogld_\([0-9]*\).1|\1|' | xargs ps -fp

This should show the process that created the last 5 files, if still running.

[Arunvijai.S]

yes, But it is very annoying. It keeps on increasing at a rate of 2 files per second.

Arun

[Arunvijai.S]

Hi Elmar,

Output is given below

=============
# ls -tr /tmp/from_ogld* | tail -5 |sed 's|from_ogld_\([0-9]*\).1|\1|' | xargs ps -fp
ps: wrong PID number /tmp/2034
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND

===============

I got a reply from HPUX Admin list that it is because of X server process. When i kill X server, file stops grow.Are there any patches or configuration that i need to change..?

Arun

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

HI Arun,

Check this doc,

Document description: system suffers from short hangs caused by x-server
Document id: UPERFKBRC00011506

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&searchString=from_ogld&search.y=11&search.x=28&mode=text&admit=552267591+1080891220451+28353475&searchCrit=allwords

Regards,
Robert-Jan