/var/rbootd files

[John Ferrara]

Does anyone know what /var/rbootd/*.reply files are for and can I delete them? (HPUX 11.00)

-r-------T 1 daemon daemon 300 Apr 1 10:47 C809be3093.reply

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

These are files created by rbootd daemon and are used for forwarding BOOTP requests to remote systems/nodes. I'm very sure these files are supposed to be deleted by bootp after the requests are serviced. Yes you can delete them but if they keep coming back thus filling up /var, you might need to find out from HP why is this happening. If this system is not an Ignite server or DTC Manager/UX server then you don't actually need it. You can disable it in the file .. so that it'll not start rbootd everytime it reboots. Or if you want to deal with it not because /var is getting full, just kill it.

/etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons

[John Ferrara]

Thanks for the help. I think that worked.

I have another question:I have many files in /var/tmp that follow a sequential order;
aaaa0000, aaaa0001, ... Any idea on what these are?

John

[S.K. Chan]

Those are temporary files created by various applications. Most of the time they can be remove (old ones). The only way to find out where those files come from (or created from what appilcation/program) is to look at it's content.
# cat aaaa0000 | more

OR

# strings aaaa0000 | more

cat it if it's an ascii file, strings it if it's a non-ascii file.

[Darrell Allen]

Hi John,

Files like /var/tmp/[A-Z}AAa##### are created by Software Distributor. There are similarly named directories in /var/tmp as well. Generally they are removed when you end your swinstall or swremove session. However, if your session calls an automatic reboot, then I believe they are left in place.

If you have ended your swinstall or swremove session then you should be fine to remove those.

Darrell