topic Re: How to Clean Orphaned files in the GRIDwork directory in Administration and Deployment

How to Clean Orphaned files in the GRIDwork directory

dgower — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:17:27 GMT

The cleanmgr utility is able to clean up orphaned files on the local SAS servers, but we have a shared config location on a storage array where our SASwork/GRIDwork directoies are located. We accumulate orphaned files there when client sessions don't close gracefully. Is there a utility to clean the GRIDwork location, or do we need to do it manually?

TIA

Re: How to Clean Orphaned files in the GRIDwork directory

JuanS_OCS — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:46:41 GMT

Hi,

I am wondering, is the cleanwork utility, under SASFoundation, not working for you?

Re: How to Clean Orphaned files in the GRIDwork directory

dgower — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:05:38 GMT

I think the cleanwork utility is only an option for UNIX and ZOS. All our servers are Windows. At least that what it seems like when I do a search for cleanwork on the SAS Support site.

Re: How to Clean Orphaned files in the GRIDwork directory

dgower — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:12:08 GMT

Using this article, http://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2014/05/14/finding-and-deleting-orphaned-sas-work-and-sas-utility-directories/, I was able to get the SAS Disk Cleanup Handler Utility to work, but only on the local SAS temp folders and files, not on the GRIDwork folder located on our storage array.

Re: How to Clean Orphaned files in the GRIDwork directory

JuanS_OCS — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:56:57 GMT

You mentioned that your concern is that the cleanwork is a utility not for Windows, but it is.

Could you check, on the same article...?

Starting with SAS 9.4M2, there is a new stand-alone utility – cleanwork.exe – that you can use with any version of SAS, starting with SAS 6.

We have placed this utility along with its documentation on the SAS FTP download page:

With this, you can select the location of your work folders to clean them.

Re: How to Clean Orphaned files in the GRIDwork directory

dgower — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:15:53 GMT

Juans, I got it to work. Thank you.

Re: How to Clean Orphaned files in the GRIDwork directory

JuanS_OCS — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:21:53 GMT

Glad to read!