.Audit is used to keep a record of all the commands entered. This could
be examined via
Splus AUDIT
in S-PLUS 3.4, but that seems missing in 5.1.
It's possible to make .Data/.Audit unwriteable, when nothing is
recorded. As in
chmod u-w .Data/.Audit
This will give a warning you can ignore.
last.dump is the last dump from an error, set because the default for
options(error=dump.calls) dumps the calls in that object. It's likely to
be small unless options(error=dump.frames) is used. If you know what you
are doing and really don't want it, set options(error=dump.calls).
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 aczarn@cs.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> to anyone who can assist
>
> generally after an splus session i delete the MySwork directory
> via rm -rf MySwork
>
> when i restart splus, splus recreates the MySwork directory and all
> subdirectories underneath it, namely __Help, __Hhelp,
> __Meta and __Shelp.
>
> splus also recreates two files called .Audit which contains the
> following
>
> #~New session: Version: S Mon May 17 02:53:20 PDT 1999,
> Time: Thu Nov 15 16:00:24 2001
> #~
> q()
> #~End session: Time: 1005811227; Process: 10357
>
> and sometimes a file called last.dump which contained
>
> ble
>
> my question is does Splus require any of these two files in order to
> work. in the past after i finished an splus session i simply deleted
> all the material in /MySwork/.Data using rm * .*
>
> i then returned to my login directory and deleted all my data files
> etc using rm * .* again.
>
> i just want to know if this affects splus in terms of it working
> properly. normally now i just delete the entire MySwork directory
> and subdirectories after ending a session using rm -rf MySwork
> and delete all my data files using rm * .* in my login directory as
> described above in order not to fill up my quota (i log in to
> machines in another department).
>
> i suppose in essence my question is does splus require these files
> namely .Audit and last.dump in order to work properly. i have no
> idea what these files actually do.
>
> i should say that i do not have root access to splus, i merely log in
> as a extraneous user and start it in my login directory my typing
> splus. i am using Version 5.1 Release 1 for Linux 2.0.31 : 1999.
>
> can anyone offer any commentry ??
>
> thanks
>
> andrew
> Dr AST Czarn
> The University of Western Australia
>
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