[Dxspider-support] [sysops] Temp Files..

[Dirk Koopman]

There are a few things:

1. DXSpider does not (intentionally) write to anywhere out of the 
/spider tree.
2. A swift search suggests that /var/spool/dma is a FreeBSDism.
3. What's in it?
4. What are you running on?

73 Dirk G1TLH

On 07/10/2019 19:24, Howard Leadmon wrote:
>
>  Probably a Dirk question, but it seems that DXspider uses a never 
> ending temp file, or I see no sign of rotation, and as it's a temp 
> name it's not simple to just add it to a rotate script.
>
>  I get notifications from my system ever so often that /var is getting 
> low, and when I look I find a file in /var/spool/dma that is loaded 
> with logging from the spider node.   A quick ls shows me this thing 
> gets big..
>
> *-rw-rw----  1 sysop  other  98642690048 Oct  7 14:16 tmp_ChMmSPN1mE*
>
>
> I tend to go in and stop the node, and get rid of the file, but I had 
> having to boot everyone to make sure I have a truncated but usable 
> temp file for the node to work with.   Are there any suggestions, or 
> procedures for taking care of this so the drive doesn't run low, and 
> spider can hum along nicely for months without incident??
>
>
> 73's de WB3FFV
>
>   
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