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Help in Understanding ISMP
Post 302529225 by lgalang on Wednesday 8th of June 2011 08:20:14 PM
06-08-2011
Help in Understanding ISMP
Hi,
Good day to everyone.
This is my first time joining the community and wanted to say thanks in advance for all your help and assistance. First, I am not expert in AIX and UNIX but I do know a thing or two and I have a simple question regarding ISMP.
We are using AIX 5.3 and a couple of days ago our UNIX filesystem /tmp used 100% of the diskspace allocated to it and when we investigated it, there was a lot of 'ismp001, ismp002, ismp003...ismp10001, ismp, 10002, etc., which is being created every 5 minutes.
Firstly, I wanted to understand what the ismp is for (I searched and saw its from InstallShield) and why is it placing an entry in the /tmp directory?
The solution that we did was determining the UNIX user who is creating the directory and once we got the user, I did a ps -ef|grep user and saw a lot of <defunct> and processes in square brackets [ ], so we did a cleanup (kill) of these processes which then stopped the creation of the ismp folder.
Would anyone know whether there are other processes (aside from installation) may create an ismp folder?
Thanks in advance.
Good day to everyone.
This is my first time joining the community and wanted to say thanks in advance for all your help and assistance. First, I am not expert in AIX and UNIX but I do know a thing or two and I have a simple question regarding ISMP.
We are using AIX 5.3 and a couple of days ago our UNIX filesystem /tmp used 100% of the diskspace allocated to it and when we investigated it, there was a lot of 'ismp001, ismp002, ismp003...ismp10001, ismp, 10002, etc., which is being created every 5 minutes.
Firstly, I wanted to understand what the ismp is for (I searched and saw its from InstallShield) and why is it placing an entry in the /tmp directory?
The solution that we did was determining the UNIX user who is creating the directory and once we got the user, I did a ps -ef|grep user and saw a lot of <defunct> and processes in square brackets [ ], so we did a cleanup (kill) of these processes which then stopped the creation of the ismp folder.
Would anyone know whether there are other processes (aside from installation) may create an ismp folder?
Thanks in advance.
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rmf [+folder] [-interactive | -nointeractive] [-version] [-help] DESCRIPTION
Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself. If there are any files within the folder which are not a part of nmh, they will not be removed, and an error will be produced. If the folder is given explicitly or the -nointeractive option is given, then the folder will be removed without confirmation. Otherwise, the user will be asked for confirmation. If rmf can't find the current folder, for some reason, the folder to be removed defaults to `+inbox' (unless overridden by user's profile entry "Inbox") with confirmation. If the folder being removed is a subfolder, the parent folder will become the new current folder, and rmf will produce a message telling the user this has happened. This provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list and returning to the current folder from which the list was extracted. If rmf s used on a read-only folder, it will delete all the (private) sequences (i.e., "atr-seq-folder" entries) for this folder from your context without affecting the folder itself. Rmf irreversibly deletes messages that don't have other links, so use it with caution. FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile PROFILE COMPONENTS
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