RE : {bb} Strange problem with tmp files

["FIGARO Nicolas" <nfigaro@effigie.fr>]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com] De la part de 
> Andrew Craick
> Envoyé : mardi 13 septembre 2005 09:54
> À : bb@bb4.com
> Objet : {bb} Strange problem with tmp files
> 
Hi, 
> 
> We're running bb19c on Solaris 2.8. Big Brother seems to be 
> logging tmp 
> files into two directories. /opt/bb/bb/tmp and /tmp. In tmp i 
> have files 
> such as iostat.1426, iostat.out2.1107,  key.1426 and  
> disks.1107 and in the 
> /opt/bb/bb/tmp directory i have things such as .expire, 
> BBPID, vmstat.1732 
> and MSG.yellow._var_adm_messages.805. I have checked the 
> bbdef file and we 
> have $BBHOME/tmp set correctly as /opt/bb/bb/tmp.
Perhaps some old runs didn't used the correct $BBTMP and generated entries in /tmp instead. 

> I'd prefer it if it didn't log anything into /tmp and would use 
> /opt/bb/bb/temp for everything. Since the /tmp is swap it 
> fills up with 
> thousands of files and then start getting errors for 'tmpfs 
> over memory 
> limit.'
> 
> I've noticed that the files in /tmp never get deleted also 
> which doesn't 
> help. 
You can delete those files. 
> I've also nocited that on one of our other solaris 
> servers it is 
> logging everything into /opt/bb/bb/tmp however it also has 
> thousands of old 
> files wasting space.
> 
> if anyone knows why this is occuring it would be appreciated.
Do you still have recent bb files in /tmp ? 

You can also parse tour extension scripts to check if all are using the $BBTMP directory. 

Nicolas Figaro

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