From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 25 3:52:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.phys.univ.kiev.ua (hq.ups.kiev.ua [193.125.78.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF21D14CB8 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 03:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from usov@hq.ups.kiev.ua) Received: from hq.ups.kiev.ua (class12.phys.univ.kiev.ua [194.44.151.88]) by mail.phys.univ.kiev.ua (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA26702; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:05:16 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <383D2EB7.F90D4139@hq.ups.kiev.ua> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:42:31 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Barnett Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: /tmp question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Barnett wrote: > > Hello, I have a problem and I need some help :) > > I think this is the correct place to ask... > > I have a file mysql.sock in /tmp everynight that file dissappears not > letting me connect to my database. > > Anyone have a guess to why it dissappears? It`s a little feauture of the /tmp - it`s a "temporary" and there is a cron task that remove everything from it. Try /var/tmp or even better /var/preserve By! Usov Alexander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message