Fellow Managers Sorry for the late summary but it has taken till today to finally nail the problem. Thanks to: Gianluca Atzeni Jay Lessert Ann Kurokawa Michael Morton Alan Pae Pradeep Ambekar The final way I identified the problem was to run a du -a on the file system before and while the problem was actually occuring. I then ran a diff on the two files which showed me who was trying to write to the file system at that moment. It turned out to be a symptom of a wider legacy Mail package on that machine. We have tidied up various mail boxes etc and the problem has now gone away. That is not to say that some others to do with sloppy file system maintenance havn't come out of thw woodwork. :-). Many of you suggested using fuser in various guises. I did get some useful information from this but feel that such a program would be much more useful if it could report the user creating the process as in my case the process would die before I could investigate it. Regards Roger Roger Kynaston UNIX Systems Analyst IT Services Division Policy & Administration London Borough Hammersmith & Fulham Tel. 0208 753 2919 The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the recipient or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain confidential information that is exempt from disclosure by law and if you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or take any act in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete from your system. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Mar 31 09:46:49 2003
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