michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten) (01/30/91)
I discovered that something is cleaning up /tmp without my knowledge. It is not /etc/rc. I've been up 15 days. It is not crontab, nor any cleanup deamons run from crontab. Whatever it is wipes out the entire /tmp/*, without regard for how recent the file is. This is rather unfriendly, and may cause some programs to crash that assume that they can re-open a file (such as a program that runs in two or three phases. Say a C compiler). Does anyone know which program is doing this and how to stop it? I suspect it is smgr, but a strings does not show '/tmp' in it. Michael -- Michael michael@stb.info.com denwa!stb!michael anes.ucla.edu!stb!michael "Space is an illusion; disk space doubly so"
afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) (01/30/91)
In article <1991Jan29.171729.11768@stb.info.com> michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten) writes: > >I discovered that something is cleaning up /tmp without my knowledge. > >It is not /etc/rc. I've been up 15 days. >It is not crontab, nor any cleanup deamons run from crontab. > >Whatever it is wipes out the entire /tmp/*, without regard for >how recent the file is. This is rather unfriendly, and may cause >some programs to crash that assume that they can re-open a file >(such as a program that runs in two or three phases. Say a C compiler). > >Does anyone know which program is doing this and how to stop it? >I suspect it is smgr, but a strings does not show '/tmp' in it. It's /etc/.cleanup. The offending line is rm -rf /tmp/*. I have commented it and my files no longer disappear. > Michael >-- > Michael >michael@stb.info.com denwa!stb!michael anes.ucla.edu!stb!michael >"Space is an illusion; disk space doubly so" -- Augustine Cano INTERNET: afc@shibaya.lonestar.org UUCP: ...!{ernest,egsner}!shibaya!afc