I am running an older version of AIX, during the boot process it runs /etc/skulker which is supposed to clean up old temp files ect. Over time the skulker process has begun taking much longer to run, used to take under a minute now it takes up to 10 minutes. I have several systems running the same setup and thay are all starting to do the same thing. Anyone have any ideas about what I could look at to find a soution.
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AIX /etc/skulker
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RodKnowlton
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- Apr 26, 2000
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Skulker does a bunch of find commands, so the larger and more complicated the filesystems it's checking become, the longer it will take to run.
Take /etc/skulker out of the inittab or rc script that's running it a boot and instead put it in cron.
Set it to run every day during off-peak hours and you're set.
We don't even run skulker. It's not necessary for proper functioning of the system. Instead we write our own clean up scripts specific to each server.
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Take /etc/skulker out of the inittab or rc script that's running it a boot and instead put it in cron.
Set it to run every day during off-peak hours and you're set.
We don't even run skulker. It's not necessary for proper functioning of the system. Instead we write our own clean up scripts specific to each server.
- Rod
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+
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