why these tmp files?

[Kevin Darcy]

Tony Ewell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>     I am using Cent OS 4.3 (same as Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux, only cheaper).  And:
>
>      rpm -qa \*bind\*
>          bind-chroot-9.2.4-2
>  
>     In my /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves directory,
> I get a bunch of these tmp files:
>
> -rw-------  1 named named   831 Sep  6 22:57 tmp-XXXX0009JN
> -rw-------  1 named named   867 Sep  9 18:57 tmp-XXXX00nQPN
> -rw-------  1 named named   867 Sep 12 14:42 tmp-XXXX02r0HE
> -rw-------  1 named named   831 Sep  7 06:42 tmp-XXXX039MN1
> -rw-------  1 named named   689 Sep  5 14:04 tmp-XXXX0apOTT
>
> Question:
>
> 1) are they suppost to be there?
>
> 2) will they eventually over run my partition or is there
> some mechanism to cull them down to a reasonable number?
>
>   
Those files are usually transient. Unless your box has been experiencing 
system crashes lately, you might want to review your shutdown 
procedure(s), since it looks like maybe named isn't being brought down 
gracefully.

                                                                         
                        - Kevin