[daip] /aips/FITS: can we delete it?

[Eric Greisen]

On 08/05/2014 02:38 AM, Robert Dickson wrote:
> Hi
> On our system /aips shares a partition with our /usr/local. We've got a
> problem where aips users are leaving large files in /aips/FITS. Can we
> remove the group write on /aips/FITS  or will this cause other problems?

That is always a problem - it is the $FITS that is known and useful for 
writing out files for copying to somewhere else.  You can remove it 
which will cause issues for the user but aips has many ways to let the 
user write to any other directory for which he/she has write privilege.
Alternatively, one could make a 2-week rule (or some such) with a cron 
that deletes all files older than that.  Another thing would be to make
/aips/FITS a link file to some other place with more available space 
perhaps also with the 2-week or whatever rule.

Eric Greisen