From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 06:38:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01269 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA01264 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 06:38:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA22541; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:38:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:38:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: .nfs files, what causes them and why do they hang around? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message