Re: /usr/ucb/ps causes disk space issues

Anoop <anoopkumarv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So in our case it is hampering our work. Because the /usr/ucb/ps
command writes something into /tmp which automatically gets root
ownership, we cannot delete the created files. This eventually fills
up /tmp and when other processes need /tmp for whatever, they just
fail coz there is no disk space available on /tmp...

Well, *that* part of it is abnormal. Under normal circumstances, it
creates one file in /tmp and reuses it. Your configuration for some
reason is unable to use /tmp/ups_data, and it creates an alternative
every other time.

I might truss it when run as root to see what it's attempting to do to
that file and what return codes come back from those operations.

Is there any workaround? I cannot use /usr/bin/ps or psgrep as they do
not provide the same information we need... Can I tell /usr/ucb/ps to
write this file elsewhere or not write it at all.. ? Just hoping!

Your system is broken. You need to do some investigation to determine
what is broken so that you can repair it. I'd guess something associate
with either the ps command or the /tmp filesystem is odd, but that's
just a guess from over here.

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