• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 18.01

Description:
One of the last things our “cold” Sunday backup script does is to restart ALEPH. There are two lines “Cleaning Temporary files more than 2 days old…” and “Cleaning log files more than 7 days old…”. Please explain what these files are that are being cleaned.

Resolution:
The “Cleaning Temporary files more than 2 days old…” is cleaning the $TMPDIR directory. "echo $TMPDIR" shows that on your server this is /exlibris/aleph/a18_1/tmp . (Note: This function is like util x/4, but it is better to have it as part of the startup script.)

The “Cleaning log files more than 7 days old…”. is cleaning the $LOGDIR directory. "echo $LOGDIR" shows that on your server this is /exlibris/aleph/a18_1/log. (Note: This function is like util x/5, but it is better to have it as part of the startup script.)

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013