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>From: Tom Priddy <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 199910052016.OAA10080 >From: Tom Priddy > >We recently upgraded our sun workstations operating system to solaris 7. > >We have the ldm back up and online....but old data files are not being >deleted. What crontab (or program) keeps file systems from filling up? >ktp > >-- >============================================================ >Tom Priddy address@hidden >Extension Ag. Meteorologist ph: 606-257-3000ext245 >Ag. Weather Center fax: 606-257-5671 >243 Ag. Engineering Bldg >Dept. of Biosystems and Ag. Engr. >University of Kentucky >Lexington, KY 40546-0276 >HOMEPAGE http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu >============================================================ > > Tom, Your crontab probably used the ~ldm/bin/scour program (along with the ~ldm/etc/scour.conf) to periodically scour off old data. An example for running the scour program every 3 hours using ldmadmin would look like: 0 1,4,7,10,13,16,19,22 * * * bin/ldmadmin scour >/dev/null 2>&1 Your ldm log files should also be rotated daily so they don't grow too large as well, eg: 00 17 * * * bin/ldmadmin newlog Steve Chiswell