Re: deleting IFS files -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: deleting IFS files
From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:59:10 -0600
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 5:49 PM Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Jack,

Just interested in your comment about deleting files from /tmp

Why would you say this is a BAD idea ?

I recommend against deleting everything *blindly*.
If your system actually uses open source for business processes, be aware
that many open source programs write pid files and stuff like that in /tmp.
On Linux, /tmp is cleared on reboot.
Of course, that's not how IBM i works.
So you do need to do some cleanup.
But you should learn to recognize things that may be artifacts of active
processes.

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Re: deleting IFS files , Patrik Schindler

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