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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:38:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: .nfs files, what causes them and why do they hang around?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.980908093637.22400D-100000@terra>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809042245460.20917-100000@tidal.oneway.com>

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On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Jay wrote:
>    So what is _supposed_ to happen to these files?  is the nfs server
> supposed to remove them automatically?  Or are they just supposed to
> hang around till I kill them on the server?  

nfs server won't do anything with them. That's up to your cron job. 
You have to be somewhat reasonable too. A few days is long enough for 
most uses, but may not be long enough for all uses. Give them a week or 
more unless they're really eating lots of space. I learned this the hard 
way a few years ago ...

ron

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