magic zombie vampire file must die

bigearsbilly · 02-15-2006, 08:18 AM

Hello,
I've encountered something outside of my experience.
I've got an account at work on a new managed server. (VMWare possibly somewhere)
I had a file that wouldn't die.
Everytime I deleted it it would re-appear immediately with a slightly different name.
(It's zero bytes because I'd truncated it as part of my campaign, it was a weblogic log file)

Code:

ls -A
central.log.gz                 unix_managed1_primadA.log.gz
unix_primadA.log.gz            .nfs295511

primadA$ rm .nfs295511
primadA$ l
central.log.gz                 unix_managed1_primadA.log.gz
unix_primadA.log.gz            .nfsE95511

primadA$ gzip .nfs*     
primadA$ ll
total 40
-rw-r-----   1 primadA  primad         0 Feb 15 11:06 .nfsB26511
-rw-r-----   1 primadA  primad        31 Feb 15 11:06 .nfsE95511.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 primadA  primad       220 Jan 31  2005 central.log.gz

I came back from lunch two hours later (ahem) and it's gone!
Any ideas. Obviously something very clever is going on.

edit:SunOS <...> 5.9 Generic_118558-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

satinet · 02-15-2006, 08:29 AM

looks like something that NFS has laid down. such as the files it uses to create file locks etc. presumable the space you are using is mounted on an NFS file system.

bigearsbilly · 02-15-2006, 08:33 AM

I assume so, looks like this:

Code:

primadA$ df -k .
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
filer04g:/vol/pj5/qt_prima_wls_domains/primadA
                      512000  186140  325860    37%    /wls_domains/prima/primadA

jlliagre · 02-18-2006, 09:57 AM

I think the problem is you are trying to remofe a file that is still open.

Try: "fuser .nfs*"