Re: Oracle networking temp files in /tmp

Rich,

Cannot verify now but if I remember correctly, these files are generated by a program in $ORACLE_HOME/bin Look for something like gen* (gennttab ??) This program is generally called during some oracle relink.

HTH At 11:04 25/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>Running Oracle 9.2.0.4 on Linux, I've noticed several files in /tmp owned by
>the oracle user:
>
>BEQ10202 DCE10202 DEC10202 I1S2 ISPX10202 ITCP10202 LU6210202
>NMP10202 RAW10202 SPX10202 TCP10202 TCPS10202 US10202 VI10202
>BEQ29871 DCE29871 DEC29871 I2S4 ISPX29871 ITCP29871 LU6229871
>NMP29871 RAW29871 SPX29871 TCP29871 TCPS29871 US29871 VI29871
>
>It would appear that these files may be related to networking based on the
>filename prefixes, but I can't find anything about them in the docs nor
>Metalink. The only files with anything in them are the BEQ*, TCP*, and US*
>ones, which coincides with the installed networking protocols, except for
>the "US*" ones. It appears that those contain some sort of dump or trace.
>For example, the file TCPS29871 starts off with:
>
>ntz.o:
>00000000 d NZPKCS12_MAGIC_NUM
> U _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
> U calloc
> U free
>00000000 t gcc2_compiled.
> U lxmcpen
> U lxsCmpStr
> U memcpy
> U nldsfprintf
> U nldtotrc
> U nlepeget
> U nlhthfre
> U nlhthget
> U nlnvcrb
> U nlnvdeb
> U nlnvfbp
> U nlnvgap
> U nlpagbp
> U nlpagsp
> U nlpagvc
> U ntctst
> U ntpafind
>00006d00 T ntzAllocate
>00007040 t ntzCheckServerDN
>00001120 t ntzConfigure
>000024c0 t ntzConvertToNumeric
>00006860 t ntzCreateCipherSpec
>000008e0 t ntzCreateConnection
>
>Anyone know what these might be? Since this is my desktop, I'm really
>tempted to just blow them away and see what happens, but if nothing happens
>it won't be much fun.
>
>Rich
>
>Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
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