[Xymon] What are these old *.tmp.<pid> files?

[Mills, David (IS)]

Thanks, Sean / Ryan ...

I appreciate the pointer!

david

From: Clark, Sean [mailto:sean.clark at twcable.com]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 11:10 AM
To: Mills, David (IS); xymon at xymon.com
Subject: EXT :Re: [Xymon] What are these old *.tmp.<pid> files?

Those look to be outside of the core "xymon" distribution - they are ext scripts that would manage the deletion of those files
I would check the ext dir for bb-prtdiag.sh and sar.sh  which look like the likely culprits, and make sure they are removing their temp files


From: <Mills>, "David (IS)" <David.Mills at ngc.com<mailto:David.Mills at ngc.com>>
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 5:48 PM
To: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
Subject: [Xymon] What are these old *.tmp.<pid> files?

All -

Hi!

In poking around in my client tmp directory, I see lots of files like this:

-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor      10K Jun  6  2012 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu005.prtdiag.tmp.5719
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     5.3K Jun  6  2012 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu002.prtdiag.tmp.24625
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     5.3K Jun  6  2012 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu002.prtdiag.tmp.4496
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor      10K Jun  6  2012 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu005.prtdiag.tmp.27931
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     5.3K Jun  4  2012 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu007.prtdiag.tmp.4316
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     5.3K Jun  1  2012 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu007.prtdiag.tmp.21618
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor      10K May 31  2012 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu005.prtdiag.tmp.9044

I also see a sprinkling of files like this:

-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor      951 Nov 13 15:47 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu001.iostat.vmstat.log.13964
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor       34 Nov 13 15:47 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu002.sar.tmp
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor       34 Nov 13 15:47 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu001.sar.tmp
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor        0 Nov 13 15:47 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu001.iostat.vmstat.error.13964
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor        0 Nov 13 15:47 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu001.iostat
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor       13 Nov 13 15:47 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu001.tm.tmp.dwbu001
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor       13 Nov 13 15:46 /home/hobbit/tmp/dwbu002.tm.tmp.dwbu002

Obviously these are temporary client data files, but the question is why didn't they get removed? What mechanism does Xymon have for cleaning up these kinds of files?

Thanks!

david

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David Mills
Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman
512-595-1238
david.mills at ngc.com<mailto:david.mills at ngc.com>




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