On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:45:08AM -0300 I heard the voice of Marc G. Fournier, and lo! it spake thus: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > >If nothing has them open (fstat or lsof or something) they should > >be safe to delete (but don't blame me if it blows up!). > > This is what I was thinking two (around safeness to delete) ... to > be absolutely certain, doing a quick maintenance shutdown for the > postmaster, remove all .nfs* files and then restarting should be > safe too ... Ah, I knew there had to be a better explanation around... <http://www.webservertalk.com/archive211-2005-2-891673.html> seems to cover it pretty well. Yah, if they're in that directory, it's pretty much a given that the postmaster was the only program touching them (and if it was anything else, you probably don't care about it). So, shutting down and deleting the files should take care of it. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
