On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:53, Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all! > > > > In an effort to clean up some drive space on my AIX box (inherited it, and > don’t know jack about Unix). One particular area/folder/drive? is running > low on drive space and I’ve found two files that are *relatively* big to the > allocated space (I’ve already removed a bunch of .bak files). These files > are “failedlogin” and “failedlogin1”. The question is....can I just delete > these files and they will recreate when required? I’m guessing that the > failedlogin1 is an older version?
At the command prompt, you should be able to do 'ls -l /path/to/directory/containing/files' and it should give you a date and time stamp for them. I don't know anything about AIX, but, as others have commented, these are probabaly log files. Beyond that, a quick reply noting the location of the files (is it /var/log/ or some other place?) might say more about what kind of files they are. Also, if the GNU coreutils are installed (or some reasonable facsimile thereof), you might also find some clues by using the 'file' command - do a 'man file' first to see if it's installed and how to use it, and what it tells you when used. Lastly, if AIX behaves anything like most *nixes, a grepping through the files in /var/log/ and /etc/ and any subdirectories underneath them for the names of those files might also bear fruit. For instance 'grep -R failedlogon /var/log/* | less' and 'grep -R failedlogon /etc/* | less' might point you in the right direction. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
