Dear list members, in the temp_path of nagios3 some of the temporary files seems to be not deleted after use. # TEMP PATH # This is path where Nagios can create temp files for service check # results, etc. temp_path=/tmp/nagios Yeserday I found some thousand old files in this folder, most of them several days old. Some were empty (size 0) but some contained a checkresult. Example: OK - 10.xxx.xxx.xxx: rta 12.929ms, lost 0%|rta=12.929ms;3000.000;5000.000;0; pl=0%;80;100;; I stopped nagios, deleted the files and started nagios again. Since yesterday evening there are a lot of new files, which are not from actual checks. -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 68 Jan 5 08:05 nagios0yEKr9 -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 112 Jan 5 08:05 nagios2i6iqK -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 92 Jan 4 23:36 nagios4Ut05O -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 95 Jan 5 05:18 nagios4V5T7Z -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 37 Jan 5 08:05 nagios69wUlS -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 44 Jan 5 08:05 nagios7kpeTT -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 37 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosAyDm6I -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 68 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosBcBfcK -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 44 Jan 5 06:52 nagiosc0qzyH -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 54 Jan 4 18:19 nagiosEbnYyp -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 42 Jan 4 17:46 nagiosem3enr -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 42 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosFC5tHn -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 90 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosFcbB3T -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 42 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosgIaFTd -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 40 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosHjr2tg -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 25 Jan 5 07:45 nagiosHQaQok -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 112 Jan 5 03:03 nagiosHqqTGM -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 92 Jan 4 16:15 nagiosiDKdQa -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 54 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosIE3WpP -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 91 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosjE9wfJ -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 36 Jan 4 18:57 nagiosJo9scw -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 92 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosJSramr -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 91 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosJySLFC -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 91 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosKbbN24 -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 68 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosLDAyA2 -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 36 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosmOkGUV -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 93 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosNPCbYC -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 112 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosnQC40w -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 112 Jan 4 17:57 nagiosqmU4XV -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 90 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosRYNDao -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 91 Jan 4 18:01 nagiossVBLLE -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 91 Jan 5 08:05 nagiost4dCCy -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 68 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosvLBWN3 -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 112 Jan 5 02:07 nagiosVXU0My -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 54 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosWFV5ci -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 36 Jan 5 08:05 nagioswQTsGA -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 54 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosxVECf9 -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 40 Jan 4 22:58 nagiosYDH02R -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 112 Jan 5 08:05 nagiosz2o85u As you can see, many of these were generated Jan 5 08:05. That's the time I stopped and restarted nagios. I suppose active checks at the time nagios is stopped are the main reason for this but also during normal operating some files remain in this folder and were not deleted after use. Thomas