We clear out /nsr/tmp often whenever we need to restart the system.  Clearing 
out /tmp (along with renaming the jobsdb) is a common suggestion from EMC 
support when troubleshooting random anomalies.

Stephanie Finnegan
American Institute of Physics



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From: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 12:28 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Subject: [Networker] Cleaning out /nsr/tmp ???


A few questions here on /nsr/tmp.

It's currently only 4.6 MB, and it's not being backed up as there is a
default /nsr/tmp/.nsr file to skip everything under there, so I'm
assuming that EMC doesn't consider this information vital.

1. *If* you shut down NW first, is it safe to remove everything under
/nsr/tmp ?

2. When you re-start NW, will it automatically re-create the 'tmp'
directory, or will it be necessary to first manually re-create it before
restarting NW?

3. I see a number of older lock files under /nsr/tmp and lots of client
completion information files named like:

/nsr/tmp/sg/groupname/ss.client.blah-blah-blah.

It looks like these get replaced each day, but regardless, do I really
need any of the stuff under /nsr/tmp?

Will removing everything under tmp cause any headaches to NW, e.g. give
it heart failure or cause it to fail to operate properly, wherein maybe
somehow it might expect to see previous information stored under there
somewhere, but now it can no longer access it?

4. Is it recommended to periodically clean out tmp?

Thanks.

George

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