Nagios.tmp file not clearing

Hello, First time posterā€¦ :frowning:
I am having issues w/nagios NOT removing the nagios.tmp fileā€¦ I had thousands of temp files in my /nagios/ Dir like this : nagios.tmppCweBK I opened up my permissions to 777 and they still keep on accumulatingā€¦ this is a BSD 6.2 PHP 5.* boxā€¦

Any help / direction would be helpful!

~peter