Re: IDBxxxxx.DTF files in Domino folder on Server

Don't believe it's related to your enabling the policy, but I've seen 
stranger things!!

See Technote    1088574

Problem Your Domino server has crashed, but prior to the crash you noticed 
that the Update task was eating up the CPU resources. Several thousand 
files of the following type appeared in the Notes Data directory:
s0----.DTF
idbc--.TMP 

What are these files and how can they be removed?   Solution DTF files are 
temporary files that are created by Notes in a temporary directory 
specified by the system's environment variable. The format is S0-S9 or 
IDB, followed by a unique five-digit number. These files are normally 
purged from the system automatically. Notes places these files in the 
working directory if there is no TEMP or TMP directory specified. Files 
placed in the working directory are not purged.

Every time the Update task runs it creates view files in the Data 
directory that start with the letter "S" and have a DTF extension (these 
files can also be created in the NOTES.INI-specified View_Rebuild_Dir 
directory). When the Update task ends, all the files should be purged 
automatically. If the files are not removed, it is likely that the Update 
task never ended (the server crashed while Update was being run because 
the server was running out of disk space, for example).

TMP files are generated by mail debuggers in the Notes.INI, for example, 
SaveImportErrors, SaveExportErrors.

To remove the files, first display them by typing the following:
- dsplnk '/notes/data/*.dtf' and dsplnk '/notes/data/*.tmp

and make sure that all the files with that extension are displayed. Then 
remove the files by typing the following:
- RMVLNK '/NOTES/DATA/*.DTF , and RMVLNK '/NOTES/DATA/*.TMP.

Important Note: It is preferable to stop the Domino Server before removing 
the files. Otherwise, it may cause database corruption and other 
unexpected results. 

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
IBM Certified Associate Developer - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
803.326.7270 | 803.326.6142 fax
http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com/

domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 
02/02/2006 03:58:39 PM:

> In the past I had maybe a dozen files in my Domino server's folder that 
> were named IDBxxxxx.DTF. (where xxxxx represents five digits). Not 
knowing 
> what they were and the fact that there wasn't a lot of them, I left them 

> alone. I had posted here awhile back about them and concluded (from the 
> response) that they were the result of certificate authority 
implentation. 
> 
> 
> Now I see that there are now over 120 of these, all with today's date 
and 
> a timestamp that is beyond the time when I applied a corporate wide 
> desktop/security/mail policy to all my users - so I suspect these files 
> are the result of my enabling of the policy. I haven't changed anything 
> regarding certificate authority stuff. I did see a post here in the 
> archives that 'dtf' stands for domino temporary file...
> 
> Anyone with an update regarding these files and their purpose? And more 
> importantly can I remove them?
> 
> Regards, Jerry
> 
> Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
> Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
> IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
> The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
> 4235 Secor Road
> Toledo, OH 43623-4299
> Phone 419-479-5535
> gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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