Hi,
Help ! - I have a process which I cannot find that is writing to /var/tmp every 10 minutes and filling up my partition, it is also filling up my wtmpx file. I have some software error correction for a faulty DIMM at the moment - is this likely to be causing this as well as over-loading my messages file ?
Thanks for any help.
Mal
Is the filename always the same when this happens?
If so, you could write a script that loops and waits for the file to be generated and then fires off lsof checking the file and the associated process (and other fine information).
You can use fuser command to find candidates. And check the crontab to find procces that run every ten minutes.
example for the /var FS:
fuser /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5: 5002o 374o 371o 358o 343o 301o 30o 282o 224o 220o 206c
This give the proccess number 5002, 374, etc.
Hi, thanks - I forgot to mention the fuser, it's strange because it comes up with the process who's ps -eaf is:
root 14484 14474 0 Dec 12 ? 0:04 /usr/openwin/bin/fbconsole
It's been around for ages and doesn't look like something that's just kicked off or anything out of the ordinary, and is just a desktop connection of some sort.