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How to delete files in /etc/crash in cDOT

Dong_Chen — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:54:31 GMT

Hi Gents,

I have a question in cDOT.

A customer always uses pktt start x x x -d /etc/crash. So there are hundreds of files in the directory /etc/crash. That's a little messy. How can I delete some file to clean up this directory.

Re: How to delete files in /etc/crash in cDOT

coreywanless — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:21:56 GMT

You need to be in diag mode, and enable the diag account.

set diag

sec log unlock diag

##Change the diag password if needed

sec log password diag

Get into the system shell:

systemshell -node <Node>

If you want to delete all the trc files run:

rm /mroot/etc/crash/*.trc

Re: How to delete files in /etc/crash in cDOT

scottgelb — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:35:46 GMT

From the clustershell you can also system coredump delete [-all -node * -type all] or use systemshell already listed in the first post.

Re: How to delete files in /etc/crash in cDOT

Dong_Chen — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 02:40:22 GMT

Cool, thanks for the advice!