steve@nshore.uucp (Stephen J. Walick) (10/30/90)
Thanks to anyone who can give an answer to this mystery. Am running
SCO-Xenix 2.3.3 on an i386 and files "copied" ( copy -om [fn] [dir] )
to the < /usr/spool/uucppublic > directory are disappearing from that
directory sometime during the night (I think). Files downloaded "to"
that directory remain there, but *only* the files copied from other
filesystems seem to mysteriously disappear. I'm suspecting it might
have something to do with the < ~/uudemon.clean > file (which "should"
only clean the < ~/uucp > directory), but have not determined that as
a definite fact. I cannot determine the exact time of the deletions,
why they are occurring or how to avoid the problem.
I have created an endless loop script to check on the existance of
the files in < ~/uucppublic > and to copy them back if they disappear,
but *that* should not be necessary at all.
If anyone has any insites, you may either post to this newgroup (I
do read it often) or email to: "uunet!ncoast!nshore!steve" (I am re-
gistered, but the path would default to a machine that only polls me
once a day (soon to be fixed)).
Thanks again, and regards.... Steve Walick
--
Stephen J. Walick, Asst Sysop of the < XBBS > program at NCoast.ORG
{uunet|backnone}!nshore!steve steve@nshore.uucpmpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) (11/03/90)
steve@nshore.uucp (Stephen J. Walick) writes: >Thanks to anyone who can give an answer to this mystery. Am running >SCO-Xenix 2.3.3 on an i386 and files "copied" ( copy -om [fn] [dir] ) >to the < /usr/spool/uucppublic > directory are disappearing from that >directory sometime during the night (I think). Files downloaded "to" >that directory remain there, but *only* the files copied from other >filesystems seem to mysteriously disappear. I'm suspecting it might >have something to do with the < ~/uudemon.clean > file (which "should" >only clean the < ~/uucp > directory), but have not determined that as >a definite fact. I cannot determine the exact time of the deletions, >why they are occurring or how to avoid the problem. There is a sequence of lines in /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.clean which looks like: find $PUBDIR -mtime 30 .... rm .... *That* line deletes files from /usr/spool/uucppublic. I found this out the hard way when 75% of our XENIX archives mysteriously disappeared overnite, and anonymous UUCP callers kept getting "PERMISSION DENIED" error messages. >I have created an endless loop script to check on the existance of >the files in < ~/uucppublic > and to copy them back if they disappear, >but *that* should not be necessary at all. Seems like a large waste of resources. Editing uudemon.clean has eliminated *all* of our problems with disappearing files. MD -- -- Michael P. Deignan / Introducing... -- Domain: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com / MommyCalc: A Spreadsheet so -- UUCP: ...!uunet!rayssd!anomaly!mpd / simple, even a woman can learn -- Telebit: +1 401 455 0347 / how to use it....