Hey Jason,

Usually you get a .nfsXXXX file when you delete a file that another application has "open".

Deleting a .nfsXXXX will only create another one.

Try using lsof or similar tools to figure out what application have open files.

If this is the users desktop, an easy thing to do is to reboot the machine and then remove .nfs files.

But yeah nothing is wrong with your filer. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Jason Truong wrote:

Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:00:33 -0700 From: Jason Truong JasonT@plumtree.com To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: some wierd .nfs* files on my filer

Hello folks,

We are running release 6.2.1R1 on our filer. We are also have home directories from NIS being auto mounted from our filer.

A user has reported seeing wierd .nfs* files popping up. Everytime he tries to delete one, another one is created. Here is an output:

bash-2.03# ls -la total 35520 drwxrwxrwx 3 5423 2049 4096 Aug 7 13:29 . drwxrwxrwx 3 5423 2049 4096 Aug 7 11:03 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 5423 2049 13859933 Jul 31 12:04 .nfs68D71 -rwxrwxrwx 1 5423 2049 420797 Jul 31 12:04 .nfs78D71 -rwxrwxrwx 1 5423 2049 139071 Jul 31 12:04 .nfs88D71 -rwxrwxrwx 1 5423 2049 3191851 Jul 31 12:04 .nfs9AF71 drwxrwxrwx 2 5423 2049 528384 Aug 7 11:10 ext bash-2.03#

Has anyone experienced this or knows what these files are?

thanks,

Jason T.

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