Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:55:21 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> 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: <6.0.0.22.2.20081208055153.02762670@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <87tz9jzvy3.fsf@kobe.laptop> 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> <87tz9jzvy3.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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At 11:33 AM 12/4/2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>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?
>
>_______________________________________________
Thank you to everyone who made great suggestions. I found the errant
script, and it was running out of a cron entry to clean up old mailscanner
files. It seems if the directories in the script didn't all exist, and a
cd failed, it left the script running in /root. I have since corrected the
script to test for the directories existence first.
But this was a case of "can't see the forest for the trees" and I do
appreciate all the help and suggestions.
-Derek
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