Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:33:56 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what script is whacking root's files Message-ID: <87tz9jzvy3.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20081204062415.026b7c80@mail.computinginnovations.com> (Derek Ragona's message of "Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600") 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, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote:
> /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.
Check your crontab jobs then.
* Do you have any local changes to the system crontab in
`/etc/crontab'? If yes, what are those changes, and what do the
scripts or other commands they run look like?
* Do you have a user-specific crontab file for `root' in
`/var/cron/tabs/root'? If yes what does it contain?
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