tmp files being created

bhugh · Post by **bhugh** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 11:44 am

Could you tell me what feature is creating files with the extension of *.tmp in a temp directory? A sample file name is "ms2033.tmp".

Here is a sample header of the file.

` 6 ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ HostMonitor Log (generated by KS-Soft HostMonitor)Logging started at 5:38:22 PM, 06/24/02 * Ì ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Event time Test Status Reply Test method : ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ,
ÿ <!--KSIM

It is creating large files that are filling up the hard drive. I'm not sure what turned this capability on. Is there a way to turn this off?

Thanks

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 12:37 pm

HM does not create any tmp files. It looks like you specified this file as common log, system log, or private log for some test. Please, check your settings on "Log settings" and "Advanced Log" pages in the options dialog. If you see in this tmp file information about single test, check "use private log" parameter for that test.

Regards
Alex

bhugh · Post by **bhugh** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 8:57 am

I checked the Log setting and advanced log settings. Log settings was set to a specific file and I changed this to each month as of yesterday. It creates a file in a specified place as an htm file.

Advanced log settings, use a different log file for the system log. Again this is in a specified directory as an htm file. Nothing is set to this temp directory or a *.tmp file setting. Whatever is creating these files created 8 files of about 13 to 16 MB each. It definitely looks like some sort of log, as it looks like a lot of test information. But it looks pretty cryptic with lots of control characters. I've included a little bit more data from the log to see if you can pinpoint where else this might be getting generated. I was going to email it to you, but zipped it is still over 2 MB.

Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

bhugh · Post by **bhugh** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:04 am

Forgot to post the contents from the file.

Here is some contents of the file, "ms3153.tmp" which is located in the c:temp directory.

` 6 ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ HostMonitor Log (generated by KS-Soft HostMonitor)Logging started at 5:38:22 PM, 06/24/02 * Ì ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Event time Test Status Reply Test method : ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ,
ÿ  ¿ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ 06/24/02 5:38:22 PM ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
ÿ  › ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ â ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Ô
ÿ 
g ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Main FTP server º ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ¬
ÿ 
? ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ † ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ x
ÿ  ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ No answer X ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ J
ÿ  Ý ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ $ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
ÿ  · ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ©
ÿ  < ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ƒ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ u
ÿ  ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ URL request W ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ I
ÿ  Ü ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ # ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
ÿ  ! ¨ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:26 pm

I checked code, HM's code even does not contain '.tmp' extension. And HM does not use Temp directory. May be its your browser creates temporary files when you view the log?

Regards
Alex

bhugh · Post by **bhugh** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 10:54 am

This situation is very perplexing. On this machine Internet Explorer/Browser is not even loaded.

Can't seem to pinpoint what is creating these temp files. I have looked through all the log file settings and nothing is pointing to this directory or file extension.

Something is creating 12 16 MB files a day on this directory. This is pretty consistent.

As the file contents have Hostmonitor data, do you know of what this data looks like that could point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 3:14 pm

Original HTML log file looks a little different:
<html>
<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="KS-Soft HostMonitor">
<title>HostMonitor Log</title>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css"> </STYLE>
</head>

Do you have some antivirus installed on your system? May be it checks HTML files for dangerous scripts and creates tmp files?

Regards
Alex