files in /u/appl/fp/tmp

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

That is exactly what I was planning was to not cleanup any dated 'today'
and run this around 2am or so to clean up that directory

thanks


On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 9:44 PM Brian White via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> Which means you also have to ensure that no other scheduled task or
> unplanned user activity could be writing one legitimately at that time.
>
> I suggest the cron job uses a find command to only select files older than
> a day or an hour or something.
>
> Something like this but I'll  post a real example later when I'm not on a
> phone.
>
> find /u/appl/fp/tmp -type f -mmin +60 -delete
>
> That will ignore any file that's younger than an hour, so it should safe to
> run any time and never be at risk of corrupting a job in progress, without
> relying on you being right about any assumptions about timing.
>
> It's kind of crap that you even have to rig up some kind of external
> cleaner like that.
>
> --
> bkw
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 5:08 PM scooter6--- via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com wrote:
>
> > Thanks Laura
> > I'll write a cleanup script at night to clear this directory then
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 5:02 PM Laura Brody <laura.k.brody at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > They are temporary files that filePro uses for sorting while
> generating a
> > > report. Feel free to delete these files.
> > >
> > > Laura Brody
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 4:55 PM scooter6--- via Filepro-list <
> > > filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> In the midst of copying files to new server and I see there are a TON
> > >> (like
> > >> over 15,000) files located in /u/appl/fp/tmp that are all similarly
> > named
> > >> something like    srtkx7tMD etc
> > >>
> > >> Do these files need to be maintained? What are these for, some sort of
> > log
> > >> files?
> > >> Never noticed them before
> > >>
> > >> thanks
> > >>
> > >> Scott
> > >> PDM
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