How we can manage the &ph& folder in UNIX system

jayeeta_aec · Post by **jayeeta_aec** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:47 am

Hi,

Can anybody please give me an overview on &ph& folder in the project directory? How can I manage its size as it is supposed to be growing per job run?

Thanks in advance.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:04 am

The contents of the &PH& subdirectory can be managed by creating an external process that deletes files. You can use cron to schedule a daily run of a command such as "find {path_to_&PH&} -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;" to remove all files not modified (or created) in the past day.

jayeeta_aec · Post by **jayeeta_aec** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:35 am

ArndW wrote:The contents of the &PH& subdirectory can be managed by creating an external process that deletes files. You can use cron to schedule a daily run of a command such as "find {path_to_&am ...

Thanks mate!!
But could please take up littile burden for me? Please post the command only that you have mentioned.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:01 am

You could always take up little burden yourself, it's a good learning opportunity. Plenty of references for UNIX commands out there, including how to use 'find' for files of a certain age and then feed the results to other commands (like 'rm') via the '-exec' option.

dganeshm · Post by **dganeshm** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:08 am

chulett wrote:You could always take up little burden yourself, it's a good learning opportunity. Plenty of references for UNIX commands out there, including how to use 'find' for files of a certain age and then feed the results to other commands (like 'rm') via the '-exec' option.

what would be the disadvantage of a growing &PH& directory?

Abhijeet1980 · Post by **Abhijeet1980** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:25 am

Slow performance.

Job monitor (via Director).
Job log view (via Director).
Job compilation (via Designer).
Job execution (Via Designer or Director).

Many regards,
Abhijit Gaikwad

Abhijeet1980 · Post by **Abhijeet1980** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:27 am

UNIX.

Try using a command that deletes all files older than certain number of days. You decide that number and google it.

Rest can be done using some good book on UNIX.

Many regards,
Abhijit Gaikwad

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:41 pm

jayeeta_aec wrote:But could please take up littile burden for me? Please post the command only that you have mentioned.

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