"Killed" reply from rm command

Hi *,



Oslevel -r = 5100-05 (yeah, I know)



I was cleaning out a temp directory today that had acquired thousands of
tmp files. Initial a simple "rm *" failed because there were too many
files. I then started deleting them using masks. After deleting
several hundreds of files, I again attempted a "rm *", however this time
the word "Killed" was returned. Has anyone seen this and/or can explain
it?? The system is still working fine the load at the time was very
minimal (no where near running out of memory or any other kind of
performance limitation).



Below is the output:



tower2-local /home/drtsmusr/tapehistory/tmp # rm *

ksh: /usr/bin/rm: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.

tower2-local /home/drtsmusr/tapehistory/tmp # rm checkinhist.TMP1.4*

tower2-local /home/drtsmusr/tapehistory/tmp # rm checkinhist.TMP1.5*

rm: checkinhist.TMP1.5*: A file or directory in the path name does not
exist.

tower2-local /home/drtsmusr/tapehistory/tmp # rm checkinhist.TMP1.6*

tower2-local /home/drtsmusr/tapehistory/tmp # rm checkinhist.TMP1.7*

tower2-local /home/drtsmusr/tapehistory/tmp # rm *

Killed

tower2-local /home/drtsmusr/tapehistory/tmp # ls



TIA



David




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