Files created in /tmp directory

[Cezex]

I've noticed this strange behaviour. It was also in previous versions, but now it got worse. iSiloXC leaves a lot of files i /tmp directory (iiiii0nQLz7, iiiii3IChDi, etc). Many of them are over 4MB big. After few days of generating documents (above thounsand a day) my hard drive is simply getting full. Is it intended ? I can delete them with cron script, but i thought you should know about it.

[iSilo]

If you terminate iSiloXC while it is performing a conversion, such as by pressing Ctrl-C, that can happen, in which case, iSiloXC does not have a chance to properly delete any temporary files it has created. Do you do this?

[Cezex]

No I don't. iSiloX finishes work by itself and document is generated properly. It's not such a problem, because it's about 30 files per 1000 generations (yes i know, but i daily generate more than 4000 documents :))

[finger51]

I am getting the same deal with the iiii9uw09d files being gen'd in /tmp.

The only difference is that my cron job only runs for about five or six minutes then stops running. It does not generate any .pdb's -- very frustrating because if I run the script below manually, it works every time.

Here's the script I'm cron'ng


#!/bin/bash
# script to automate isiloxc
#delete the old .pdb
rm -f /home/user/isiloxc/isilo/*.pdb
cd /home/user/isiloxc
./isiloxc -x chronicle_fark.ixl -v
#isiloxc outputs .pdb files to ~/isiloxc/isilo --pcp-r.sh copies to my handheld
./pcp-r.sh /home/user/isiloxc/isilo ":/CF Card/My Documents/"


thanks

[iSilo]

Do you perhaps have a time limit setting on cron jobs?

[comtrjl]

With cron jobs are you not supposed to use the full path to the executables? (i.e. not dot-slash anything)

bob

[finger51]

Do you perhaps have a time limit setting on cron jobs?

hmmm.. this might be the cause for those truncated /tmp/iii* files. I don't know where I'd find the answer to that though. I'm running kanotix. I'll man cron to see if there is a switch or some info on limits. thanks for the lead!

[finger51]

With cron jobs are you not supposed to use the full path to the executables? (i.e. not dot-slash anything)

bob

ok, didn't know that. I'll give it a go. thanks!