Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 07:38:16 -0700 From: "Tim Judd" <tajudd@gmail.com> To: "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what script is whacking root's files Message-ID: <ade45ae90812040638o7e8cde3fqc871c5fdf3fcfa4b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20081204062415.026b7c80@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20081203192259.0241ef88@mail.computinginnovations.com> <49374418.6060709@FreeBSD.org> <ade45ae90812032311v47e92cf2g30bc3e2915d38276@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20081204062415.026b7c80@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com > wrote: > At 01:11 AM 12/4/2008, Tim Judd wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Derek Ragona wrote: > > > >> I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files > >> (all dot files including .ssh etc.) in /root keep getting deleted. I > >> assume this is from a script running from periodic and can be set NOT to > >> delete these files. Can someone point me where I need to make this > change. > >> I have already combed through the handbook and mailing list archives. > >> > > > > There is no such standard script in FreeBSD. > > > > Kris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > I'd make sure there's not something like a tmpfs/mfs filesystem that /root > is being used on. If / is on a ramdisk image of any kind, on each reboot, > it should disappear. > > Perhaps you should paste your fstab and current mounted filesystems as an > aid to debug. > > > I didn't think it would be from the way the filesystems are mounted, so > here's that information: > > cat /etc/fstab > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/da0s1d /usr ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > mount > /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local) > devfs on /dev (devfs, local) > /dev/da0s1d on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) > > /root is on /dev/da0s1a > > This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server. The > server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for root. I > have not found the behavior to follow a reboot, but some period of time. > Hence my suspicions it was a periodic script. > > -Derek > all dotfiles are hidden, in terms of the usability of the files. Some shells will alias 'ls' with -a to show all files (including dotfiles). Other shells don't alias it so it hides the files. Are you sure they really disappear, or are they gone from a directory listing because ls is not being called with -(a)ll files displayed? I just think that your files are not being deleted. Something is just not being specified. Check system crontab file (/etc/crontab) and your own crontab (crontab -lu root) Change your root password, incase somebody's in there, deleting your files to hide their own tracks. chmod -R 0600 /root I agree that there isn't something "correct" about this, but i'm positive it's not a base periodic script that's included in FreeBSD Base install.
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