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- From: graaff@IS.TWI.TUDelft.NL (Hans de Graaff)
- Subject: Re: Large hvtmp files left in /tmp?
- Message-ID: <C1EHw9.CvD@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology
- References: <ghawkins.727730217@unix1.tcd.ie>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:21:44 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article 727730217@unix1.tcd.ie, ghawkins@unix1.tcd.ie (George C. Hawkins) writes:
- >
- >Some program here keeps on leaving behind a large (greater than
- >0.5Mb) file called hvtmpBAAa06214 (letters after hvtmp appear to
- >be random) in /tmp on the Sun IPXs here. Whatever's doing it is
- >doing something seriously strange as the date on these files is
- >always Sep 18 1991. If a couple of these files build up in /tmp
- >the root filesystem becomes full (only 8Mb if assigned to /). As
- >the machines are used by many different people the files invariably
- >belong to someone other than yourself and the only way to rescue
- >the machine is to reboot the machine (L1-A) if you're not root,
- >which will clear /tmp. I searched the binaries on the machines and
- >found that in helpviewer in /usr/openwin/bin contains the null
- >terminated string "hvtmp". So I suspect it might be this program.
- >Anyone else had this problem, if so do you know how to fix it
- >(remove helpviewer)?
-
- You're right, helpviewer is the culprit. It writes its PostScript document
- to /tmp when started, and only removes it when helpviewer is quit
- normally. When you quit OpenWindows without quitting helpviewer first,
- it will leave the file there.
-
- My solution has been to remove helpviewer from the applications the get
- started as a default application (in /usr/openwin/lib/openwin-init).
- It doesn't entirly solve the problem, but it helps.
-
-
- Hans
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