https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324756#M7033 Thank you SASKiwi - we had error in code and we closed session so may be SAS didn't have opportunity to clean up itself when we closed it... Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:15:00 GMT woo 2017-01-13T23:15:00Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324686#M7029 <P>does sas_util file under temp work dir has data?&nbsp;</P> <P>there is one big sas_util file under temp work dir and we want to delete it but we don't want to loose any data - can we delete it? we want to freeup some space...</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>thanks!</P> Fri, 13 Jan 2017 19:54:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324686#M7029 woo 2017-01-13T19:54:27Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324733#M7030 <P>SAS_UTIL files are temporary utility files used by SAS for processing purposes. It is safe to delete them as long as the SAS process that created it is no longer running.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Most SAS sites regularly run the CLEANWORK utility to do automatic removal of old temporary SAS files and folders.</P> Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:28:02 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324733#M7030 SASKiwi 2017-01-13T22:28:02Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324756#M7033 Thank you SASKiwi - we had error in code and we closed session so may be SAS didn't have opportunity to clean up itself when we closed it... Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:15:00 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324756#M7033 woo 2017-01-13T23:15:00Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324761#M7034 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/26689">@woo</a> wrote:<BR />Thank you SASKiwi - we had error in code and we closed session so may be SAS didn't have opportunity to clean up itself when we closed it...<HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>This is a common occurrence, from users not waiting for a process to finish or SAS terminating abruptly. As <a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13976">@SASKiwi</a>&nbsp;mentions, running Clean Work utility on a regular basis to avoid files left lying around after a process abnormally terminates.</P> Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:33:54 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324761#M7034 Reeza 2017-01-13T23:33:54Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324788#M7035 <P>Thank you Reeza for your comment, we have that in place but i think since sas eg looks for pid upon cleanup, that session might be left over (uncleaned).</P> Sat, 14 Jan 2017 03:45:01 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324788#M7035 woo 2017-01-14T03:45:01Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324808#M7037 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/26689">@woo</a> wrote:<BR />Thank you SASKiwi - we had error in code and we closed session so may be SAS didn't have opportunity to clean up itself when we closed it...<HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I have a shell script that runs cleanwork on all our WORK/UTILLOC locations. Besides being run from cron, I also run that script everytime I have to kill a SAS process.</P> <P>Some programming errors can leave SAS in a state where only kill -9 works, or even a successful kill without -9 does not perform the cleanup.</P> Sat, 14 Jan 2017 07:57:23 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/sas-util-file/m-p/324808#M7037 Kurt_Bremser 2017-01-14T07:57:23Z