who cleared /tmp?
Steven Stern
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Thu Jan 5 13:15:56 UTC 2006
Neal Becker wrote:
> I realize that in general, keeping files in /tmp is rather dangerous.
> However, it seems that readhat/linux has generally left such files alone.
>
> It seems a number of valuable files I placed in /tmp got removed. I'm
> wondering what caused this? I don't see anything obvious in /etc/crond.d,
> nor is /etc/sysinit (system had been rebooted a couple of times). Any
> hint?
>
/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
By default, it looks at the *last access time*. If you hadn't accessed
the files recently, there were deleted by this script.
--
Steve
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