20020522: LDM: fort.nn files

Tom,

Yes, you can remove them.

The fort.nn files come from a fortran logical unit when
some system stack error condition has occured. You can generally 
see the pieces of data in the program stack if you do an "od -c"
on the file. If you are running fortran decoders (like GEMPAK,
that is the likely source). 

Steve CHiswell


>From: Tom McDermott <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200205221558.g4MFwOa17369

>Hello,
>
>I recently noticed the existence of a number of these 'fort.nn' files in
>my ~ldm directory:
>
>-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      metbin   162225152 May  1 17:16 fort.11
>-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      metbin   162443776 Apr 24 16:55 fort.12
>-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      metbin   159705600 May 17 16:54 fort.13
>-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      metbin   161952256 May 17 17:01 fort.14
>-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      metbin   163713536 May  1 17:16 fort.15
>
>As you can see, they are quite large.  I don't know what they are
>(perhpaps temporary files) or even if they are created by
>the ldm program, but that is the first possibility to eliminate.  I was
>able to find this reference in the ldm support archive to one of these
>files on a Unidata ldm server:
>
>       http://unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/65/2590?78#mfs
>
>Specifically:
>
>/local/ldm% ls
>ldmd.pid         data@            src@             ldm-5.0.1/
>etc/             doc@             mail/            ldmd_gilda.pid
>fort.11          include@         util/            ldmd_buddy.pid
> decoders/        lib@             ldm-5.0.5/       killpipe.csh*
>bin@             logs@            ldm-5.0.4/       profiled/
>build@           man@             ldm-5.0.3/
>classes@         runtime@         ldm-5.0.2/
>
>If you know what these files are, is it OK to delete them?  As you can
>see, they are quite huge on my system.  Thanks.
>
>Tom
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