jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald) (07/05/89)
On the 3b1, /etc/rc runs /etc/.cleanup every time the system is brought up. There are two things in here that are wrong. 1. /etc/wtmp is cleaned out! This means that if the system goes down unexpectedly, it throws away some of the most useful information available for determining why it went down. This should be cleaned out in a more predictable and clean way - e.g. in /etc/cleanup.wk it could be moved to /etc/wtmp.old, thus you always have one weeks worth of history. 2. There is a find procedure to clean out the lost+found directory. (This may be commented out by default, it certainly is here.) The problem here is twofold - people don't check lost+found very often so this could lead to an important file being thrown away before it is missed - even worse, it is set up to discard any directory that hasn't been modified in 7 days but when fsck puts something into lost+found it keeps its original timestamp, so this means it doesn't get to stay in lost+found for even a week, it could get removed during the same reboot in which fsck put it into lost+found. -- "Software and cathedrals are much the same - | John Macdonald first we build them, then we pray" (Sam Redwine) | jmm@eci386