ntuple files in the operator account

From: Konstantin Olchanski (olchansk@ux1.phy.bnl.gov)
Date: Thu Aug 17 2000 - 19:39:18 EDT

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    It came to my attention for the second time that there is a large
    amount of large ROOT files created by the ntuple program kept in
    the operator account (~operator/ntuple/data (?)).
    
    This creates a small problem: these files are big,
    a new file is created for each run, the amount
    of disk space is finite and these files are never deleted. To
    state the obvious, with the current setup, the operator
    account will run out of disk space soon.
    
    When I first noticed this problem I asked the ntuple program authors
    to stop creating the ntuple files in the operator home directory,
    and put them elsewhere instead, for example, on the pii5 local
    scratch disk (18 Gbytes compared to ~5 Gbytes of free space on
    the opus disk, shared with the DAQ). They (the authors) did something,
    and I though they have fixed this problem.
    
    Now I see that they did NOT fix it. The ntuple root files
    are still created in the operator home directory and still never
    removed.
    
    Can Somebody Do Something About It (tm)?
    
    If nothing is done soon, the operator account quota will be
    exhausted and the home directory will become unwritable. The
    current quota situation can be seen using the "quota -v" command.
    
    
    -- 
    Konstantin Olchanski
    Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York
    olchansk@bnl.gov
    



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