Thanks all, and to those who emailed me off list; I just finished a big project and now back to this annoying little problem.

I found the little bast$%rd. It's being written by MP3 Sushi Server and it is leaving no tracks of itself in the system logs and it is not in the activity monitor [how can this be? must be operator error].

Thanks to everyone and let's see if I really have killed that thing.

Michael


On May 19, 2004, at 3:01 AM, Armando Stettner wrote:

If you are familiar with UNIX commands, you could go into the terminal application and run OD (piping to MORE) the file and see what's there. You then might use the activity monitor (or something else) to see what process is writing this file. Is this file referenced in any of the system logs?

 armando


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From: "Michael Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 18, 2004 2:17:16 PM PDT
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Littlesnitch-talk] [OT] ices.log
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I'm at my wit's end, and before I go to Mac Managers, I thought I'd see if anyone on this list has any ideas. I need to throw this problem out to some informed folks, and for now, if you're reading this pathetic plea, you're more informed than I am :-]



The short version: an invisible file called 'DS9/private/temp/ices.log' is incrementally written, increasing in size until it approaches 87G and fills the startup disk. 'DS9' is the name of the drive.



The long version: I have no clue what is writing this file. The obvious answer is Icecast, but I have never loaded that app on any computer. I DO stream audio with iTunes.



I googled 'ices.log', learning nothing, and I hit the Icecast support forum, also with no luck. I also posted to Apple's support fora in several places with no luck; but I did learn about a very nice app called 'Whatsize' that helped me at least identify the reason that my startup drive was filling up [until then I had no idea why].



I've been trying to identify by trial and error who is writing the file, but no luck yet. I was able to see the front [and rear] of the file in Terminal but learned nothing new.



 Anyone else have any ideas/clues/directions?



 Michael Spencer

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