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Date:      Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:51:10 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: invisible files in /usr/tmp ???
Message-ID:  <15012.6238.869999.371983@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <449168@toto.iv>

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hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> types:
> I'm having a problem with files in /usr/tmp becoming "invisible."

Being "invisble" implies that they are still there, but you can't see
them. What makes you think they are still there?

> Typically, this comes when downloading a file with netscape.  ls then
> can see the file, and that it's copying over it if I download again,
> but ls cannot see the files.

I can't parse this. Please try again.

> While I'm at it, neither /tmp nor /usr/tmp seem to be regularly deleting
> files; could this be related?

Nope. You can enable cleaning tmp by adding the appropriate things to
/etc/periodic.conf. See the periodic.conf man page for details.

	<mike
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