Re: What are the /var/tmp/o/s#xxxxx files ?

Hi,

These are ipc protocol pipe files (fifo).

Each time the listener is started these one file gets created in the /var/tmp/.oracle directory.

It is of the form s#pid of the listener process. These files will remain if the listener process is not shutdown properly. Try killing the listener process, the fifo file will remain. You can maually remove these files.

HTH. Naren Chintala

Guy Dallaire wrote:
>
> A lot of those files belonging to oracle are lying there. What are
> they used for, and why don't they disapear when the DB instances go
> down ? Some are VERY OUTDATED.
>
> I don't want to remove them while my DB instances are running because
> I fear a crash. When can I safely remove them or how can I identify
> those that I can already remove. I presume that in the s#xxxxx, the
> xxx represents some PID. Those are fifo (pipes) files and they don't
> use disak space, but there are a lot of them and they're eating
> i-nodes I presume.
>
> We run Solaris 2.4 and Oracle 7.3.x + An old 7.1.6 for the financials.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Please reply by e-mail also
>
> Thanks
>
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Received on Wed May 06 1998 - 14:06:28 CDT