On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:40:15 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I asked this on the OE-MVS Listerver but I want to hit a different and >wider audience. > >Has anyone run into IBM products using z/OS Unix that allocate /tmp/ >subdirectories at installation and expect them to still exist later on? > >And a related question: Do z/OS shops regularly clean out their /tmp/ >directory? I know it gets cleaned out with an IPL if it lives in TFS, >but I have heard that many Unix installations automatically clean out >/tmp/ files regularly (e.g., nightly). Any MVS shops also doing this? > No products that *I* know of, but VI recovery files and dumps can go there so I never allocate /tmp as a TFS. I know of many shops that do though. Also, if /tmp a TFS and is large I think it could impact OMVS since it takes storage from the kernel. I have cron scripts that clean out /tmp, syslogd, WAS stuff, and cron logs. Some of it runs weekly, some monthly. I haven't had the need to do anything on a daily basis at this point. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
