How to Shrink/Reset File stderr1 on a SAP System?

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I have a file called stderr1 in the work directory of several of the SAP servers in my production cluster. It has grown to around 19GB's to fill the hard disk on each server.

I have deleted all trace files and WP files from within transaction SM50 but that hasn't deleted it (or re-named it to .old).

If I try to rename or delete it manually, it says I can't because the file is in use.

Please can you tell me how I can delete or shrink the stderr1 file?

SAP version? abap or java? user process explorer or handle from sysinternals to identify the process that holds nadle to the file. — Igal Serban, Jun 04 '10 at 05:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 04 '10 at 09:52

To resolve this: I stopped SAP and the SAP Windows services, but was still unable to delete the file. So I rebooted the servers and then was able to delete it.

Since rebooting last night, the file is about 1MB on each server, so we will monitor it.

Also just to note, we do have the cleanup reports running as per OSS notes 48400 and 16083.

I also ran a consistency check and that didn't show any issues

More information here: http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?forumID=45&threadID=1702733

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 02 '10 at 22:18

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Go to the directory where the file is and :

echo "" > stderr1

THat will shrink the file.

answered Jun 02 '10 at 22:18

Geraint Jones

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I forgot to say, it is a Windows Server 2003 system :-) – Techboy Jun 02 '10 at 22:21
should still work ;-) – Geraint Jones Jun 03 '10 at 05:13
Thanks, I have just tried it and got the message 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.' – Techboy Jun 03 '10 at 09:02

How to Shrink/Reset File stderr1 on a SAP System?

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